Salivary Proline-Rich Proteins
"Salivary Proline-Rich Proteins" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
A family of proline-rich proteins that constitute the majority of the protein component of SALIVA. Salivary proline-rich proteins occur as acidic, basic and glycosylated basic proteins. They perform a variety of functions such as adhering to the acquired ENAMEL PELLICLE, acting as lubricants and precipitating TANNINS.
| Descriptor ID |
D055273
|
| MeSH Number(s) |
D12.644.848.937 D12.776.850.925
|
| Concept/Terms |
|
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Salivary Proline-Rich Proteins".
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more specific than "Salivary Proline-Rich Proteins".
This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Salivary Proline-Rich Proteins" by people in this website by year, and whether "Salivary Proline-Rich Proteins" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
![]()
To see the data from this visualization as text,
click here.
Below are the most recent publications written about "Salivary Proline-Rich Proteins" by people in Profiles.