• Their apocrine glands, like those in humans, produce an odorless, oily, opaque secretion that gains its characteristic odor upon bacterial decomposition. (wikipedia.org)
  • Apocrine sweat glands were originally thought to use only apocrine secretion: vesicles pinch off from the secretory cells, then degrade in the secretory lumen, releasing their product. (wikipedia.org)
  • Other secretory mechanisms include holocrine (in which the gland cell membrane disintegrates to release its secretion), apocrine (in which the ends of the gland cells pinch off, carrying the secretion), and direct active transport of particular molecules across the gland cell membrane. (unboundmedicine.com)
  • Our body comprises of many natural factors that involve the secretion of energy in the form of sweat while performing any high-level activity. (tomsk.ru)
  • In apocrine secretion, cells secrete by destroying their apex membrane so that the secretion flows out of the cells into the excretion duct and after secretion the cell regenerates its apex membranes. (tomsk.ru)
  • RESULTS: The administration of PAI-039 or Pai1 knock-out increased Chrna1 expression, sweat secretion, and hydrochloride-related biomarkers (ACH, CACNA1C, and AQP5) expression. (bvsalud.org)
  • On the other hand, CIS administration diminished the strengthened hyperhidrosis phenotype induced by Pai1 knock-out with decreased sweat gland secretion. (bvsalud.org)
  • CONCLUSION: PAI1 inhibits CHRNA1-mediated hydrochloride-induced hyperhidrosis, with decreased sweat gland secretion and diminished ACH, AQP5, and CACNA1C expression. (bvsalud.org)
  • Hair follicles, sebaceous glands, sweat glands, apocrine glands, and mammary glands are considered epidermal glands or epidermal appendages, because they develop as downgrowths or diverticula of the epidermis into the dermis. (medscape.com)
  • Hydradenitis suppurativa is a chronic inflammatory condition of the sweat glands (called as apocrine or sebaceous glands) and hair follicles. (homeodoctor.co.in)
  • An example of apocrine exocrine glands are the apocrine glands in the mammary glands and the arm pits and groin. (tomsk.ru)
  • An example of apocrine gland is mammary glands that produce milk in women and other female mammals. (tomsk.ru)
  • What is ulnar-mammary syndrome? (orthopedicshealth.com)
  • Schinzel syndrome, also known as ulnar-mammary syndrome, is a rare inherited disorder characterized by abnormalities of the bones of the hands and forearms in association with underdevelopment (hypoplasia) and dysfunction of certain sweat (apocrine) glands and/or the breasts (mammary glands). (orthopedicshealth.com)
  • What are the symptoms for ulnar-mammary syndrome? (orthopedicshealth.com)
  • Ulnar-mammary syndrome (UMS) is a rare genetic syndrome, present from birth, that affects the development of several parts of the body. (orthopedicshealth.com)
  • What are the causes for ulnar-mammary syndrome? (orthopedicshealth.com)
  • What are the treatments for ulnar-mammary syndrome? (orthopedicshealth.com)
  • Ulnar-mammary syndrome (UMS), also known as Schinzel syndrome, is a rare genetic syndrome that affects the development of several parts of the body. (orthopedicshealth.com)
  • The ulnar-mammary syndrome (MIM 181450) includes postaxial ray defects, abnormalities of growth, delayed sexual development, and mammary and apocrine gland hypoplasia. (elsevierpure.com)
  • and the mammary glands, which produce milk. (wikipedia.org)
  • Mammary glands produce milk that is used to feed newborns. (edu.vn)
  • The female mammary gland (breast) is an exocrine gland that is concerned with milk production in lactating female. (online-sciences.com)
  • The main features of UMS include upper limb defects (including abnormal or incomplete development of the fingers and forearm), underdevelopment of the mammary and apocrine glands (leading to absent breast development and the inability to produce breast milk), and various genital abnormalities. (orthopedicshealth.com)
  • A modified apocrine gland is the mammary gland that secretes milk. (antranik.org)
  • The apocrine glands of breast secrete fat droplets of breast milk and the glands of ear help in the formation of earwax. (tomsk.ru)
  • It appears along the embryological mammary ridges, or milk lines, which extend from the axilla to the upper medial thigh. (basicmedicalkey.com)
  • There are three categories of functional classification, holocrine glands, merocrine (or eccrine) glands, and apocrine glands. (tomsk.ru)
  • This study aimed to report and discuss the challenging differential diagnosis between a primary tumor of sweat glands and cutaneous metastasis of mammary carcinoma using anatomopathological and imaging diagnostic resources available today. (bvsalud.org)
  • The findings show the challenge in differentiating a primary tumor of the sweat gland from a metastatic cutaneous tumor of mammary carcinoma, even with the immunohistochemical resources currently available. (bvsalud.org)
  • Cysts, apocrine metaplasia, epithelial hyperplasia, fibroadenoma (Fig. 2.6 ), papilloma, and a wide range of lesions occurring in the normally located breast can be encountered in ectopic breast tissue. (basicmedicalkey.com)
  • For most mammals, however, apocrine sweat glands secrete an oily (and eventually smelly) compound that acts as a pheromone, territorial marker, and warning signal. (wikipedia.org)
  • Unlike eccrine sweat glands, which secrete continuously, the apocrine glands secrete in periodic spurts. (wikipedia.org)
  • Apocrine glands , or scent glands, secrete substances that are used for chemical communication, such as in skunks. (edu.vn)
  • Sweat is mostly water where, through osmosis, capillaries go through connective tissue and secrete filtrate (fluid inside the blood that is secreted). (antranik.org)
  • Apocrine glands are such glands that release parts of cells along with the substances they secrete in the form of vesicles. (tomsk.ru)
  • These simple tubular glands secrete sweat onto the body's surface directly. (tomsk.ru)
  • Such glands secrete sweat by a process called exocytosis. (tomsk.ru)
  • These glands secrete more sweat when we fear or take stress. (tomsk.ru)
  • These are the most common type of sweat glands and secrete sweat to skin's surface directly. (tomsk.ru)
  • These are a type of sweat glands that secrete sweat into the sac of hair follicles and do not open directly in to our skin. (tomsk.ru)
  • These glands secrete sweat that mostly contains water, along with sodium chloride. (tomsk.ru)
  • Apocrine gland = confined to axillary (armpit), anal and genital areas. (antranik.org)
  • The primary difference between these two glands is that the merocrine glands are present all over the body, while apocrine glands are present in genital areas only. (tomsk.ru)
  • The secretory tubules of apocrine glands are single layered, but unlike the eccrine secretory tubules, contain only a single type of ductal epithelial cell, varying in diameter according to their location, and sometimes branching off into multiple ducts. (wikipedia.org)
  • These data suggest that inflammation leads to epithelial destruction of sweat ducts associated with the sweat coil atrophy and subsequent loss of function. (bvsalud.org)
  • In humans, apocrine sweat glands are found only in certain locations of the body: the axillae (armpits), areola and nipples of the breast, ear canal, eyelids, wings of the nostril, perineal region, and some parts of the external genitalia. (wikipedia.org)
  • The apocrine gland secretes an oily fluid with proteins and lipids that is odorless before microbial activity. (wikipedia.org)
  • The "axillary organs", limited regions with equal numbers of apocrine and eccrine sweat glands, only exist in humans, gorillas, and chimpanzees. (wikipedia.org)
  • Men have more apocrine sweat glands than women in all axillary regions. (wikipedia.org)
  • Adnexal apocrine glands and sweat ducts of the axilla may mimic breast ducts and lobules of axillary ectopic breast tissue. (basicmedicalkey.com)
  • Favorite places of localization of this type of lice are areas with apocrine sweat glands: pubis, genito-anal area, axillary hollows, and also, with thick hair, chest and abdomen. (iliveok.com)
  • Most non-primate mammals, however, have apocrine sweat glands over the greater part of their body. (wikipedia.org)
  • Non-primate mammals usually have apocrine sweat glands over most of their bodies. (wikipedia.org)
  • Mammals are vertebrates that possess hair and mammary glands. (edu.vn)
  • Given these results, the authors discuss the difficulty in diagnosing differentiation from a primary or metastatic neoplasm of the scalp, with the resources currently available, until the conclusion that it was a primary carcinoma of the sweat gland. (bvsalud.org)
  • A modified apocrine gland is a ceruminous gland that produces ear wax in the external ear canal. (antranik.org)
  • Apocrine glands, which begin to function at puberty under hormonal influence, seem to play little role in thermoregulation. (easynotecards.com)
  • Sweat and sebum are mixed in the hair follicle and arrive mixed at the epidermal surface. (wikipedia.org)
  • The secretions of apocrine cells accumulate in one part of the cell, called the apical region. (tomsk.ru)
  • Being sensitive to adrenaline, apocrine sweat glands are involved in emotional sweating in humans (induced by anxiety, stress, fear, sexual stimulation, and pain). (wikipedia.org)
  • In humans, the apocrine glands in this region are the most developed (with the most complex glomeruli). (wikipedia.org)
  • It is also found in areas of skin, which come in contact with each other like the sub mammary folds under the breasts and inner thighs. (homeodoctor.co.in)
  • The apocrine sweat glands are not the primary gland involved in thermoregulation. (easynotecards.com)
  • Primary malignant neoplasms of the sweat glands are rare, constituting less than 1% of all primary malignant skin lesions 1 . (bvsalud.org)
  • The two primary parts of apocrine glands are- a coiled secretory structure, the gland itself and a straight duct. (tomsk.ru)
  • Primary cutaneous cribriform apocrine carcinoma: Case report and literature review. (nih.gov)
  • Endocrine mucin-producing sweat gland carcinoma (EMPSGC) and primary cutaneous mucinous carcinoma (PCMC) are rare low-grade neoplasms thought to arise from apocrine glands that share many histological features and are proposed to be on a single histopathologic continuum, with EMPSGC as the in situ form that may progress to the invasive PCMC. (bvsalud.org)
  • These apocrine sweat glands are tubular, coiled, secretory glands surrounding a large lumen, lined up by a cuboidal epithelium. (tomsk.ru)
  • Apocrine glands have large secretory portions. (tomsk.ru)
  • Cytotoxic T lymphocyte infiltration and MxA expression were only observed in the sweat ducts of patients with InfAIGA. (bvsalud.org)
  • In hoofed animals and marsupials, apocrine glands act as the main thermoregulator, secreting watery sweat. (wikipedia.org)
  • While male monotremes and eutherians possess mammary glands, male marsupials do not. (edu.vn)
  • Patients with mammary Paget disease (PD) present with a relatively long history of an eczematous skin lesion or persistent dermatitis in the nipple and adjacent areas. (medscape.com)
  • This is essential, as the rate at which human skin sweats varies depending not only on bodily location and environmental conditions but also on the time of day. (dailymail.co.uk)
  • Apocrine skin carcinoma has characteristics similar to those of cutaneous breast carcinoma metastases when it presents a tubule-lobular, or cordonal differentiation. (bvsalud.org)
  • The apocrine glands of the skin and eyelid are sweat glands. (tomsk.ru)
  • RESULTS: We found that tissue samples from patients with InfAIGA exhibited inflammation within the sweat duct and atrophy of the sweat coil, whereas patients with non-InfAIGA exhibited only atrophy of the sweat coil. (bvsalud.org)
  • Apocrine glands are mostly found in the armpits, the groin and around the nipples of the breast. (tomsk.ru)
  • It is a modified apocrine sweat gland (compound tubulo-alveolar), and the glandular tissues are located in. (online-sciences.com)
  • An erythematous patch in mammary PD is usually sharply demarcated and infiltrated (unlike eczematous dermatitis). (medscape.com)
  • Unlike conventional batteries, the sweat-powered battery design does not contain heavy metals or toxic chemicals which can harm both health and the environment. (dailymail.co.uk)
  • The gland is large and spongy, located in the subcutaneous fat deep in the dermis, and has a larger overall structure and lumen diameter than the eccrine sweat gland. (wikipedia.org)
  • The rest of the body is covered by eccrine sweat glands. (wikipedia.org)
  • Sweat glands are located over most of the body surface in primates. (edu.vn)
  • BACKGROUND: Acquired idiopathic generalized anhidrosis (AIGA) leads to heat intolerance due to the loss or reduction in thermoregulatory sweating over an extensive area of the body. (bvsalud.org)
  • Pigmented mammary PD and pigmented extramammary PD are rare clinical entities in both males and females. (medscape.com)