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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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holocrine secretion (which
destroys a cell) but more
damaging than
merocrine secretion (exocytosis).
Apocrine secretion Apocrine gland Histology of...
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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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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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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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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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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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their type of
secretion into
holocrine glands (sebaceous glands) and the
merocrine glands (sweat glands), the
latter were then in 1917
divided into apocrine...
