The Secretion, Components, and Propertie
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Carpenter, Guy H.
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Article
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2013
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Annual Reviews
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English
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Saliva has one of the most difficult roles to perform in the body. It must facilitate the taste and detection of foods nutritious to the body but also defend the mucosa from infection by the ever-present microbiota present in the mouth. It achieves these roles by having a complex composition and ver