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Muscarine, 79-80 

 Myoepithelial cells, 11, 25, 29, 39- 

 40, 49-50 



Neuraminic acid, 175 

 Nicotine, 73, 77 



after denervation, 108 

 Nitrate, 159, 203-4 

 Nitrite, 125 



Nitrogen mustards, 72, 86-7 

 Noradrenaline, content of gland, 

 106 

 in toads, 270 



metabolic effect, 232 



release, 60 



secretory effect, 60, 83, 108 

 Nucleus salivatorius, 239 



Olfactory-parotid reflex, 74 

 Osmolyte concentration of saliva, 

 142, 221 

 effect of adrenaline, 219 

 in immature dogs, 218-19 

 in parotid saliva of sheep, 162 

 Oxygen consumption of glands, see 



Metabolism 

 Oxytocin, 49 



Palatine glands, 41, 96, 99, 153 

 Panting and secretion, 75-6, 259- 



260 

 Paralytic secretion, 40, 94, 103, 



112-15 

 Paredrinol, 83 

 Parkinsonism, 242 

 Parotid gland, arteries, 15 

 blood supply, 23 

 control, 239 

 embryology, 30 

 innervation, 9, 41, 43, 48, 50, 



60-1, 65 

 maximum rate of secretion, 140, 



182 

 of man, 98, 155, 178, 180 

 of sheep, 49-50, 73, 95, 97-8, 



124, 162 

 of toad, 270 



paroxysmal secretion, 1 16-17 

 saliva, amylase, 178 

 bicarbonate, 145 

 blood group substances, 177 

 calcium, 161 

 chloride, 153 



iodide, 155-6 

 kallikrein, 180 

 lysozyme, 179 



osmolyte concentration, 142 

 pH, 144 

 potassium, 149 

 protein, 169, 171, 182 

 sodium, 152 

 Parotin, 262 

 Paroxysmal secretion, 63, 100, 103, 



112, 116-17 

 PAS-Schiff reaction, 29 

 Perchlorate, effect on chloride, 154 

 on iodide, 159 

 excretion, 160 

 pH of saliva, 144 



Phloridzin on glucose in saliva, 187 

 Phosphatases, in gland, 29, 32, 106 



in saliva, 185, 256 

 Phosphate in saliva, 145, 161 

 Phosphoethanolamine, 162, 185 

 Phospholipid turnover, 162, 232 

 Picrotoxin, 74, 244 

 Pilocarpine, secretory effect, 76, 

 80-1, 97 

 in man, 75, 79, 82 

 supersensitivity, 108, 112 

 treatment of denervated glands, 

 effect on activity of enzymes, 

 105, 1 1 1 

 on atrophy, 104 

 on histological picture, 105, 



1 1 1 

 on paralytic secretion, 113 

 on supersensitivity, 100, 109, 

 in 

 Pinocytosis, 28 

 Pituitrin, 75 



Potassium, content of saliva, 145, 

 147-8, 206 

 after adrenaline, 147, 219 

 adrenal corticoids, 151, 163, 



220-1 

 arterial injection, 211, 215- 

 216 

 in saliva of sheep, 163 



of puppies, 151 

 in salivary glands, 205, 208 

 effect on maximum rate of secre- 

 tion, 140 

 secretory effect, 72, 85 

 transient, 150-1, 163, 206-12, 

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