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sal·i·var·y

 (săl′ə-vĕr′ē)
adj.
1. Of, relating to, or producing saliva.
2. Of or relating to a salivary gland.
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Adj.1.salivary - of or relating to saliva; "salivary gland"
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salivary

adj salival
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In the peritoneal fluid, DBP gets converted to MAF (formation involves the cleavage of galactose and sialic acid residues by 3-galactosidase and a sialidase enzyme secreted by B and T lymphocytes).2 Due to increased conversion to MAF in the peritoneal fluid, the levels of DBP are, therefore, found to be lower in females with endometriosis.
The gene's job is to produce a sialic acid sugar molecule called Neu5Gc, which in other mammals appears to greatly reduce the likelihood of atherosclerotic changes in blood vessels.
This is because sperms are naturally coated with sialic acid and the innate immune system uses sialic acid to distinguish human cells from invaders.
The Fermon prototype strain of EV-D68 isolated in 1962 has a stronger affinity to [alpha]2,6-sialic acid primarily in the airways than to [alpha]2,3-linked sialic acid present in the lower respiratory tract (14).
According to the company, DAS181 is a recombinant sialidase protein that can cleave sialic acid, the virus receptors located on the surface of epithelial cells lining the human respiratory track.
Summary: N-Acetyl-D-neuraminic acid is a prominent representative of sialic acid, and has attracted the attention of the researchers due to its versatile biological function and significant contribution in the therapeutics field.
The major nutrient components are the glycoproteins, rich in amino acids, carbohydrates, calcium, sodium, potassium and a major component called sialic acid, which most of the functionality and stability of the nest is based on.The nest can also be used in wound healing processes, human skin proliferation, improvement of the learning abilities and hair growth enhancement in baldheaded people, according to experiments done on some Japanese male and female subjects as well as rats.
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By analyzing the clot, Yamakawa discovered two novel glycolipids, one containing sialic acid and the other without sialic acid, and named them hematoside (obtained from horse blood) and globoside (obtained from human blood), respectively.
The study finds that both HA and NA target a sugar called sialic acid, that is found in abundance on the receptors of cells lining the mammalian respiratory tract, which the virus uses to gain entry into the body.