“…For further details, please refer to recent reviews [7,39,50,52,54,58,63,71,72,74]. Molecular chaperones used to be considered intracellular, but in recent years chaperones (predominantly the 70-kDa heat shock protein -Hsp70) were also found extracellularly in human blood sera [64,66,88], and the presence of some other chaperones (cpn10 and cpn60) was also reported in pancreatic juice [83]. The presence of a key molecular chaperone (Hsp70) in human saliva was also demonstrated in our previous studies [26,27], indicating a possible effect of Hsp70 not only in the extracellular compartment and blood, but on mucosal surfaces as well.…”