Introduction of immortalizing genes prolongs the cell culture period in sweat glands As the growth of sweat gland cells under in vitro culture was disturbed by spontaneous cellular senescence, primary sweat gland cells could not be cultured for a long time. According to a previous study on glandul...
Apocrine glands are found mostly in the armpit. Unlike eccrine glands, they don’t expel sweat topically, but into hair follicles. The liquid secreted includes nutrients that are broken down by bacteria (making for that lovely odor). All in all, both types of glands are paramount to keeping ...
and have been suggested to denude the mucosa allowing excessive water absorption.6 It has also been suggested that hypersecretion of mucin, and increased water absorption in exocrine glands, can be related to the basic defect.7 (4) Deficient lipase secretion leads to a reduction in the intralumi...