Impacted cerumen: composition, production, epidemiology and management

JF Guest, MJ Greener, AC Robinson, AF Smith - Qjm, 2004‏ - academic.oup.com
Abstract In the UK, some 2.3 million people suffer cerumen ('ear wax') problems serious
enough to warrant management, with approximately 4 million ears syringed annually …

Red-billed oxpeckers: vampires or tickbirds?

P Weeks - Behavioral Ecology, 2000‏ - academic.oup.com
Many recent studies have shown that classic examples of mutualism are either far more
complicated than originally believed, or that they are not mutualisms at all. Red-billed …

Human ceruminous gland: ultrastructure and histochemical analysis of antimicrobial and cytoskeletal components

M Stoeckelhuber, C Matthias… - … Record Part A …, 2006‏ - Wiley Online Library
The ceruminous glands in the skin of the human external auditory canal are modified
apocrine glands, which, together with sebaceous glands, produce the cerumen, the ear wax …

In-depth proteomic analysis of the human cerumen—a potential novel diagnostically relevant biofluid

MA Feig, E Hammer, U Völker, N Jehmlich - Journal of proteomics, 2013‏ - Elsevier
Human cerumen, also called earwax, is a substance secreted by various glands in the outer
ear canal. Although the variation of texture and color during otorhinolaryngological diseases …

Interactions between red-billed oxpeckers, Buphagus erythrorhynchus, and domestic cattle, Bos taurus, in Zimbabwe

P Weeks - Animal Behaviour, 1999‏ - Elsevier
Many apparent interspecific mutualisms are poorly understood. Although theory has focused
on the various evolutionary problems peculiar to mutualism, especially the need to identify …

Association between the ABCC11 gene polymorphism-determined earwax properties and external auditory canal microbiota in healthy adults

Y Amari, M Hosonuma, T Mizukami, J Isobe… - Microbiology …, 2025‏ - journals.asm.org
The concept of genome–microbiome interactions, in which the microenvironment
determined by host genetic polymorphisms regulates the local microbiota, is important in the …

Aspects of glycoconjugate production and lysozyme-and defensins-expression of the ceruminous glands of the horse (Equus przewalskii f. dom.).

T Yasui, A Tsukise, K Fukui, Y Kuwahara… - European Journal of …, 2005‏ - europepmc.org
The distribution of complex glycoconjugates and antimicrobial substances in the ceruminous
glands of the horse (Equus przewalskii f. dom., type: pony) was studied using carbohydrate …

A study of antibacterial and antifungal properties of human cerumen

S Gupta, R Singh, K Kosaraju, I Bairy… - Indian Journal of …, 2012‏ - journals.lww.com
Objective: To investigate the effect of human cerumen on the growth of Staphylococcus
aureus, Escherichia coli, Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Candida albicans. Study Design …

Presence of hBD-1 and hBD-2 in human cerumen and external auditory canal skin

Y Joo Yoon, J Woo Park, E Jung Lee - Acta oto-laryngologica, 2008‏ - Taylor & Francis
Conclusion. Human β-defensin-1 (hBD-1) and human β-defensin-2 (hBD-2) antimicrobial
peptides present in the cerumen, which is composed of exfoliated epithelial keratin and …

Antimicrobial properties of human cerumen

SK Swain, MC Sahu, P Debta… - Apollo Medicine, 2018‏ - journals.sagepub.com
In daily clinical practice, clinicians and otolaryngologists often confront with cerumen or
earwax. Cerumen is formed by sebaceous glands and ceruminous glands at the outer one …