Method of Secretion
Exocrine glands are named apocrine glands, holocrine glands, or merocrine glands based on how their products are excreted.
- Apocrine glands - a portion of the plasma membrane buds off the cell, containing the excretion.
- Holocrine glands - the entire cell disintegrates to excrete its substance, an example is sebaceous glands for skin and nose.
- Merocrine glands or (eccrine glands) - cells excrete their substances by exocytosis an example is pancreatic acinar cells.
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