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Dermatology
Structure and Function of Eccrine, Apocrine, and Sebaceous Glands
Built from Dermatology, 5th Edition
What’s inside
4 sections · 63 slides
Skin gland overview
Three gland types built into the skin, and how they relate to hair follicles
- Classification of skin exocrine glands
- Shared features of the three gland types
- Pilosebaceous unit anatomy
- Comparing eccrine and apocrine glands
- Characteristics of sweat glands
Eccrine Sweat Glands
Structure, nerve control, development, and disorders of the most widespread sweat gland
- Key features of eccrine sweat glands
- Eccrine gland distribution and density
- Structure of the eccrine secretory coil
- The eccrine duct and acrosyringium
- Eccrine gland innervation
- Embryonic development of eccrine glands
- Composition of eccrine sweat
- Two-step formation of eccrine sweat
- Functions of eccrine sweat
- Measuring sweat production
- Methods for evaluating sweat production
- Classification of sweat gland disorders
- Hyperhidrosis: increased sweating
- Complications of excess sweating
- Hypohidrosis: reduced sweating
- Drug-related eccrine disorders
- Toxic erythema of chemotherapy on the hand
- Mechanism of sweat retention (miliaria)
- Miliaria types by depth of duct occlusion
Apocrine Sweat Glands
Where they sit, how they are built, and why their human function is unclear
- Key features of apocrine sweat glands
- Distribution of apocrine sweat glands
- Structure of the apocrine secretory unit
- Distinguishing apocrine from eccrine glands
- Innervation of apocrine sweat glands
- Comparing eccrine and apocrine innervation
- Innervation and receptor profiles of sweat glands
- Embryonic development of apocrine glands
- Composition of apocrine sweat
- Mechanisms of apocrine secretion
- Possible functions of apocrine sweat
- Bromhidrosis: apocrine body odor
- Apocrine chromhidrosis
Sebaceous Glands
Structure, development, and their central role in acne vulgaris
- Key features of sebaceous glands
- Free sebaceous glands without a hair follicle
- Three types of pilosebaceous units
- Anatomic parts of a sebaceous follicle
- Zones of the follicular infundibulum
- Resident microorganisms of the sebaceous follicle
- Sebaceous gland development
- Stem cells and sebocyte differentiation
- Holocrine secretion of sebum
- Composition of sebum
- Hormonal and neuropeptide regulation of sebum
- Regulators of the sebaceous gland in acne and rosacea
- Sebostasis and seborrhea
- Androgen regulation of sebum and acne
- Overview of acne vulgaris pathogenesis
- Hormonal pathways in acne vulgaris pathogenesis
- Six categories of sebaceous gland action in acne and rosacea
- Roles of the sebaceous gland in acne and rosacea pathogenesis
- C. acnes and free fatty acids in acne pathogenesis
- External and drug triggers of acne-like eruptions
- 1.5-4M
- Summary
- References
- References (continued)
- References (continued)
- Dermatology, 5th Edition (2-Volume Set)