Article
Phenotyping of immunocompetent cells in normal labial and palatal salivary glands and in non-autoimmune sialadenitis.
Journal of oral pathology & medicine : official publication of the International Association of Oral Pathologists and the American Academy of Oral Pathology - 1 Aug 1991
Vigneswaran N, Peters K P, Diepgen T L, Wahlich C, Hornstein O P, Haneke E
Abstract excerpt
Different types of inflammatory cells in healthy major and minor salivary glands (SG), including those in labial and palatal non-autoimmune sialadenitis, were quantified immunohistochemically. Plasma cells, mainly IgA type predominated in all SG types, with the smallest number seen in the palatal...
Topics
- Antigens, Differentiation
- Atrophy
- Autoimmune Diseases
- B-Lymphocytes
- Female
- Humans
- Immunoenzyme Techniques
- Lip
- Macrophages
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Neutrophils
- Palate
- Parotid Gland
- Phenotype
- Plasma Cells
- Salivary Glands
- Sialadenitis