...Amanda L. Johnson; Sonia S. Elder; John G. McKendrick; Lizi M. Hegarty; Ella Mercer; Elaine Emmerson ABSTRACT The salivary glands are often damaged during head and neck cancer radiotherapy. This results in chronic dry mouth, which adversely affects quality of life and for which there is no long...

... secretory cells, which synthesize and secrete massive quantities of cargo proteins via regulated exocytosis. The Drosophila larval salivary glands are composed of professional secretory cells that synthesize and secrete mucin proteins at the onset of metamorphosis. Using the larval salivary glands...