Using salivary glands to treat serious systemic diseases:sExamples of new roles for oral medicine in the health care team?

Abstract

It is necessary to begin this Commentary with a very significant disclaimer. I have extensively published on and extolled the merits of using gene transfer to salivary glands as a means for turning these critically important oral tissues into valuable in vivo bioreactors to make therapeutic proteins for systemic use (e.g., Voutetakis et al, 2004; Hai et al, 2009; Perez et al, 2010).

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