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Endocrine
Secrete into the bloodstream
No Ducts

-Pancreas(Islets of Langerhans)
-Thyroid
-Pituitary
Exocrine
Secretes via Ducts

-Exocrine Pancreas
-Salivary Glands
-Sweat Glands
Unicellular
-Goblet Cells(Exocrine)
-Enterochromaffin Cells(Gastrointestinal, Endocrine)
Multicellular
Lined by simple cuboidal or columnar
Secretory component
Duct
Simple
No branching of the DUCT
(Secratory portion can branch)
Compound
Branching at the DUCT
Tubular
Can be Straight, Coiled, or Branched

Simple Tubular = Colon
Coiled
Looks broken up on a slide
Apocrine (epitrichial)
Thermoregulation in horses and cows only
Mixes with Sebum to make the "scent"
Simple Coiled
Skin(Associated with Hair Follicles)
Eccrine (atrichial)
Foot pads
‘frog’ of ungulates (ruminants, camelids)
Snout of pigs
Medial surface of carpus of pigs
Nasal planum of cows
Simple Coiled
Acinar(Alveolar)
Counter to Tubular
Pouches of secretion, "Grape-like"
Tubulo-acinar
Long bits put together with pouched bits in secretory portion
Merocrine
Droplet of secretion fuses with the plasma membrane
Can't see microscopically

-Eccrine Sweat glands
Apocrine
A piece of the apical (top) cytoplasm pinches off
Can be recognized microscopically

-Mammary Glands
-Ceruminous glands (ear wax)
Holocrine
The whole cell is secreted
Can be recognized microscopically
Cells are replaced by mitosis

-ONLY sebaceous glands
Serous Merocrine
Watery secretions

-Salivary Glands
-Pancreas
Mucus Merocrine
Viscous secretions
Foamy cytoplasm
Flattened basal nucleus
Eccrine Glands vs. Apocrine
Apocrine is associated with a hair follicle while Eccrine is not
Sebaceous Glands
Simple branched acinar that secretes in a holocron manner.
Lipid tidbits in the cytoplasm
Body of the Stomach
Simple branched tubular Merocrine(Mucus and Serous)
Salivary Glands
Compound acinar Merocrine(Mucus and serous)
Mammary Glands
Compound tubulo-acinar Apocrine