LondonDry mouth can end a cancer patient’s ability to eat.
Radiotherapy, Sjögren’s syndrome and diabetes all damage the glands that produce saliva.
Researchers now trace the failure to sustained cell stress rather than dead tissue, a target current drugs don’t treat.
If the stress pathway holds up, it points toward reversing gland failure instead of just masking it.
How each outlet framed it
- Phys.org
- investigates oxidative stress as cellular imbalance mechanism in salivary gland dysfunction, rather than simple cell death
Sources: Phys.org