Whatzit?

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Whatzit?
In the News, today, scientists have discovered a "new" organ in the human body they didn't know existed. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Whatzit?
In the News, today, scientists have discovered a "new" organ in the human body they didn't know existed. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Got anything more than a teaser line on that, Murph?

Lots of people out there discovering that they had something between their ears every day that was not just a lump of wax......

[chuck]

Decebalus Rex

https://www.flickr.com/photos/peamasher/30031100416

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Decebalus Rex

That's the who, but the where is on the Romanian - Serbian border

[rogruth]

On the Danube River. Chuck has it in his answer.

[chuck]

On the Danube River. Chuck has it in his answer.

Only if you scroll down! He's correct, I SHOULD have put it in "answer".

I was so hung up on finding it! I think I scrolled through 4K images to find it.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

I think I scrolled through 4K images to find it.

Sort like a Lord of the Rings scene,

[rogruth]

Could scare the heck out of a boater on the Blue Danube.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Could scare the heck out of a boater on the Blue Danube.

Add some sound effects, some smoke, lasers......... Yup! Good fun!

[webenda]

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Whatzit?
In the News, today, scientists have discovered a "new" organ in the human body they didn't know existed. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Got anything more than a teaser line on that, Murph?

Lots of people out there discovering that they had something between their ears every day that was not just a lump of wax......

Wherezit?
They said it is in the throat. I'm not certain it's been named yet, nor it's function discerned , as yet.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Whatzit?
In the News, today, scientists have discovered a "new" organ in the human body they didn't know existed. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Got anything more than a teaser line on that, Murph?

Lots of people out there discovering that they had something between their ears every day that was not just a lump of wax......

Wherezit?
They said it is in the throat. I'm not certain it's been named yet, nor it's function discerned , as yet.

They? Who is "they" and where did they say it? In the throat? Seems highly unlikely that anything might be discovered in a very well defined area.

[webenda]

Got anything more than a teaser line on that, Murph?

Lots of people out there discovering that they had something between their ears every day that was not just a lump of wax......

Wherezit?
They said it is in the throat. I'm not certain it's been named yet, nor it's function discerned , as yet.

They? Who is "they" and where did they say it? In the throat? Seems highly unlikely that anything might be discovered in a very well defined area.

They are Matthijs H. Valstar et al and they said it in Amsterdam.

Our body contains a pair of previously overlooked and clinically relevant nasopharyngeal salivary glands, according to new research led by the Netherlands Cancer Institute and the University of Amsterdam. Sparing these newly-identified glands, named the ‘tubarial glands,’ in patients receiving radiotherapy may provide an opportunity to improve their quality of life.
--Oct 21, 2020 by Enrico de Lazaro
http://www.sci-news.com/medicine/tubari ... 08972.html

The team’s paper was published online September 23, 2020 in the journal Radiotherapy and Oncology.
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Matthijs H. Valstar et al. The tubarial salivary glands: A potential new organ at risk for radiotherapy. Radiotherapy and Oncology, published online September 23, 2020; doi: 10.1016/j.radonc.2020.09.034

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Okay, makes some sense........

I'm very aware of the impact on salivary glands being seriously compromised by PSMA targeted radiation therapy to treat prostate cancer as PSMA seems significantly expressed on the salivary glands. Given the array of salivary glands scattered about in the head & neck, not sure that this is a new gland as much as just a better defined subset of existing tissues.

I'll have to read through Valstar's paper and see if they propose any means to obviate the impact on salivary glands by PSMA targeted radiation therapy.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Thank you, Wayne. I didn't take notes when watching our Channel 2, which is CBS, when they made the report about that throat feature, newly discovered, but was so stunned by the news that I thought you voices here might enjoy hearing about it right away, and would enjoy your own research into finding out more. .