Familiarity often causes people not to consider the tongue as a special organ. For instance, Western medicine focuses more on ...

The surface of your child’s tongue is covered with tiny, pinkish-white bumps (papillae) which are really short, fine and hairlike. When your child has a geographic tongue, it would look as though he ...

In circumvallate and foliate papillae, most T1r3-expressing cells also express a gene encoding a related receptor, T1R2, raising the possibility that these cells recognize more than one ligand, ...

While it sounds weird, “black hairy tongue” is a real, though harmless, condition where the papillae on your tongue elongate and trap bacteria or food debris. Blame poor oral hygiene, smoking, or ...

This is a protein produced by dermal papilla cells, which is known to play an important role in the formation of hair at the bottom of the hair follicle. In the UK alone, it's estimated that over ...

From the recently collected papillary calculi, four patients with chronic stone formation requiring retrograde intrarenal surgery (RIRS) were selected. All these patients have previously ...