Merocrine (or eccrine) is a term used to classify exocrine glands and their secretions in the study of histology. A cell is classified as merocrine if...

products are secreted, exocrine glands are categorized as merocrine, apocrine, or holocrine. Merocrine – the cells of the gland excrete their substances by...

(can secrete sweat with strong odour (apocrine) or with a faint odour (merocrine or eccrine), and nails (protection). Skin appendages are derived from...

where they may number 200–400/cm2 of skin surface. They produce sweat, a merocrine secretion which is clear, odorless substance, consisting primarily of...

than holocrine secretion (which destroys a cell) but more damaging than merocrine secretion (exocytosis). Apocrine secretion Apocrine gland Histology of...

itself and not to the host which begot the cell) type of secretion, with merocrine secretion being the least damaging and apocrine secretion falling in between...

apical surface. The glands in this group can be divided into three groups: Merocrine glands – cells secrete their substances by exocytosis. (e.g. mucous and...

their type of secretion into holocrine glands (sebaceous glands) and the merocrine glands (sweat glands), the latter were then in 1917 divided into apocrine...

brain stem complexes are also cholinergic, as are the receptor for the merocrine sweat glands. In neuroscience and related fields, the term cholinergic...

and mucin 5AC in the respiratory tract. The goblet cells mainly use the merocrine method of secretion, secreting vesicles into a duct, but may use apocrine...