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...
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products are secreted, exocrine glands are categorized as merocrine, apocrine, or holocrine. Merocrine – the cells of the gland excrete their substances by...
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(can secrete sweat with strong odour (apocrine) or with a faint odour (merocrine or eccrine), and nails (protection). Skin appendages are derived from...
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Eccrine sweat gland (redirect from Merocrine sweat glands)
where they may number 200–400/cm2 of skin surface. They produce sweat, a merocrine secretion which is clear, odorless substance, consisting primarily of...
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than holocrine secretion (which destroys a cell) but more damaging than merocrine secretion (exocytosis). Apocrine secretion Apocrine gland Histology of...
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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...
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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...
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their type of secretion into holocrine glands (sebaceous glands) and the merocrine glands (sweat glands), the latter were then in 1917 divided into apocrine...
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brain stem complexes are also cholinergic, as are the receptor for the merocrine sweat glands. In neuroscience and related fields, the term cholinergic...
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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...
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