title: [Total saliva amount and salivary immunoglobulins in normal children].
abstract: Total saliva amount and salivary immunoglobulins are examined in 90 normal children who are divided into three groups, aged 3-5, 6-10 and 11-15 year old. The normal reference range of total saliva amount and salivary immunoglobulins are established. The amount of total saliva and IgM is higher in elder group. SIgA is very low in the children aged under ten, which may results from incomplete development of salivary gland and is much higher in children at the age of eleven to fifty, which is related to the development of salivary gland and synthesis of SIgA in salivary gland; IgG is low among all three groups and has not much changes with aging, which supports that IgG in saliva is mainly a leakage from blood into saliva.
authors: School of Stomatology, Beijing Medical University.
authors: S L
authors: SL
authors: Wang
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D006801:Humans; D007071:Immunoglobulin A, Secretory / Q000032:analysis*; D007074:Immunoglobulin G / Q000032:analysis; D007075:Immunoglobulin M / Q000032:analysis*; D012016:Reference Values; D012463:Saliva / Q000276:immunology / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D007071:Immunoglobulin A, Secretory; D007074:Immunoglobulin G; D007075:Immunoglobulin M