The glossopharyngeal nerve also aids in tasting, swallowing and salivary secretions.
For instance, the rate of salivary secretion is controlled by certain cells in the upper medulla and the lower pons.
The sight and smell of food, or even the thought of food, will trigger those cells to stimulate salivary secretion so that the mouth "waters."
Exchange of the salivary secretion takes place after prolonged courtship interactions.
Xerostomia has been used as a test to detect lies, which relied on emotional inhibition of salivary secretions to indicate possible incrimination.
The difference in baselines between these two groups results from the large degree of individual variation in salivary secretion.
In addition, all salivary secretions are hypotonic with respect to the plasma concentration.
One factor that affects oral health is the amount of salivary secretion.
A comparative study by Japanese researchers examined the effects of ubiquinol and ubiquinone on salivary secretion.
Nevertheless, direct stimulation of sympathetic nerves will cause an increase in salivary enzymatic secretions.