Archives of Oral Biology
Volume 46, Issue 8 , Pages 689-695 , August 2001

The effect of pilocarpine on salivary constituents in patients with chronic graft-versus-host disease

  • Rafael M Nagler

      Affiliations

    • Dr R.M. Nagler is currently with the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Rambam Medical Center and Faculty of Medicine, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel. In addition, he is Director of their Oral Biochemistry Laboratory.
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Present address: Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Rambam Medical Center, POB 9602, Haifa 31096, Israel. Tel: +972-4-6442003; fax: +972-4-6541295
    • ,
  • Arnon Nagler

,Accepted 27 February 2001.

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PII: S0003-9969(01)00035-8

doi: 10.1016/S0003-9969(01)00035-8

Archives of Oral Biology
Volume 46, Issue 8 , Pages 689-695 , August 2001

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