ANPH - Skin CH 10

Question 1

What is a gland?
Name 2 basic types of glands?
Difference?

Answer 1

Gland - group of cells that synthesizes su stances(like hormones) for release…

Endocrine - into the blood stream

Exocrine - into cavities I side body or its outer surface

Question 2

Endocrine secrete products through…?

Answer 2

Basal lamina

Question 3

Exocrine glands secrete their products through …?

Answer 3

Ducts onto an outer or inner surface of the body

Question 4

3 types of exocrine glands?

Answer 4

Apocrine

Holocrine

Merocrine

Question 5

Apocrine glands

Answer 5

A portion of the secreting cell’s body is lost during secretion.

Question 6

Holocrine glands

Answer 6

Entire cell disintegrates to secrete its substances e.g. sebaceous glands.

Question 7

Merocrine

Answer 7

Secrete substances by exocytosis. E.g. mucous and serous glands (eccrine)

Question 8

3 categories of secretory product of exocrine glands?

Answer 8

Serous glands - watery, often protein-rich (e.g.sweat glands)

Mucous glands- viscous product, rich in carbohydrates like glycoproteins ( e.g. goblet cells)

Sebaceous glands - lipid product (also called pill glands)

Question 9

Do apocrine or eccrine( merocrine) glands have thicker lumens?

Answer 9

Apocrine