Jennifer Barr

Since the launch of the Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM), there has been a significant political and financial movement towards tackling India’s huge sanitation challenge. But as more toilets are constructed, more sewer lines are laid and more septic tanks and toilet pits are built, actors who are involved must also ask – who will fix and clean the sanitation systems and what are our responsibilities to those people and processes?

Immune cell‐mediated destruction of salivary glands is a hallmark feature of Sjögren syndrome. Similar to the female predominance in humans, female non‐obese diabetic (NOD) mice develop spontaneous salivary gland autoimmunity. However, in both humans and mice it is unclear what factors contribute to the initial immune infiltration of the salivary glands.