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exocrine gland
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gland that produces and secretes substances onto an epithelial surface by a duct
Key facts
- Latin
- glandula exocrina
- Mesh
- D005088
- Th
- H2.00.02.0.03014
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Research
142,636 papers- Exocrine gland structure-function relationships.Development (Cambridge, England) · 2022
- Exocrine gland-resident memory CD8(+) T cells use mechanosensing for tissue surveillance.Science immunology · 2023
- Exocrine Gland Morphogenesis: Insights into the Role of Amphiregulin from Development to Disease.Archivum immunologiae et therapiae experimentalis · 2017
- Organogenesis of the exocrine gland.Developmental biology · 2004
- The basitarsal sulcus gland, a novel exocrine structure in ants.Arthropod structure & development · 2021
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Wikidata facts
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- topic's main category
- Category:Exocrine glands
- opposite of
- endocrine gland
- NCI Thesaurus ID
- C12712
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Encyclopedic overview
Exocrine glands are glands that secrete substances onto an epithelial surface by way of a duct. Examples of exocrine glands include sweat, salivary, mammary, ceruminous, lacrimal, sebaceous, prostate and mucous glands. Exocrine glands are one of two types of glands in the human body, the other being endocrine glands, which secrete their products directly into the bloodstream. The liver and pancreas are both exocrine and endocrine glands; they are exocrine glands because they secrete products—bile and pancreatic juice—into the gastrointestinal tract through a series of ducts, and endocrine because they secrete other substances directly into the bloodstream. Exocrine sweat glands are part of the integumentary system; they have merocrine and apocrine types.
Classification
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “exocrine gland” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.