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1 Departments of Physiology, Clinical Dentistry, and Biochemistry, School of Dentistry and Medical College of Alabama, University of Alabama, Birmingham, Ala.
The rates of flow of the secretions of the human parotid, sublingual, and submaxillary glands have been recorded during sleep, immediately after awakening (sublingual and submaxillary secretions), and during the so-called "resting" state. The data indicate that the parotid gland does not secrete spontaneously and suggest that the sublingual and submaxillary glands, in this regard, act similarly to the parotid. It appears, therefore, that saliva collected routinely in the laboratory as "resting" saliva is, in fact, stimulated or activated secretion and gross variations in the rate of its secretion are due to fluctuations in the intensity and frequency of internal stimulation.
Submitted on August 26, 1954
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