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  2. Apocrine - Wikipedia

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    Micrograph showing apocrine metaplasia of the breast with typical features, [4] including apical snouts with eosinophilic granules. H&E stain. Apocrine metaplasia is a reversible transformation of cells to an apocrine phenotype. It is common in the breast in the context of fibrocystic change. It is seen in women mostly over the age of 50 years.

  3. Apocrine sweat gland - Wikipedia

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    An apocrine sweat gland (/ ˈ æ p ə k r ə n,-ˌ k r aɪ n,-ˌ k r iː n /; from Greek apo 'away' and krinein 'to separate') [5] [6] is composed of a coiled secretory portion located at the junction of the dermis and subcutaneous fat, from which a straight portion inserts and secretes into the infundibular portion of the hair follicle. [7]

  4. Metaplasia - Wikipedia

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    Micrograph showing apocrine metaplasia of the breast with typical features [3] H&E stain. Barrett's esophagus is an abnormal change in the cells of the lower esophagus, thought to be caused by damage from chronic stomach acid exposure. The following table lists some common tissues susceptible to metaplasia, and the stimuli that can cause the ...

  5. Sweat gland - Wikipedia

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    Both apocrine and eccrine sweat glands use merocrine secretion, where vesicles in the gland release sweat via exocytosis, leaving the entire cell intact. [ 37 ] [ 7 ] It was originally thought that apocrine sweat glands use apocrine secretion due to histological artifacts resembling "blebs" on the cell surface, however, recent electron ...

  6. Acrospiroma - Wikipedia

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    Acrospiromas are a broad class of benign cutaneous adnexal tumors. [1] Cutaneous adnexal tumors are a group of skin tumors consisting of tissues that have differentiated (i.e. matured from stem cells) towards one or more of the four primary adnexal structures found in normal skin: hair follicles, sebaceous sweat glands, apocrine sweat glands, and eccrine sweat glands. [2]

  7. List of glands of the human body - Wikipedia

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    Gastric chief cell, Wasmann's glands stomach: serous 14 Glomus coccygeum, coccygeal gland, Luschka's gland or gangliona coccyx, near the tip 15 Goblet cells: digestive tract, respiratory tract: mucous simple unicellular 16 Henle's glands: eyelids, in the conjunctiva: tubular 17 Krause's glands: conjunctiva, middle portion mucous 18 Lieberkuhn's ...

  8. Epithelial polarity - Wikipedia

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    Epithelial cells come in a variety of shapes that relate to their function in development or physiology. How epithelial cells adopt particular shapes is poorly understood, but it must involve spatial control of the actin cytoskeleton, which is central to cell shape in all plant cells. Apocrine cells, showing apical snouts towards the lumen.

  9. Goblet cell - Wikipedia

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    Goblet cells are simple columnar epithelial cells, having a height of four times that of their width. The cytoplasm of goblet cells tends to be displaced toward the basal end of the cell body by the large mucin granules, which accumulate near the apical surface of the cell along the Golgi apparatus, which lies between the granules and the nucleus.