Immunoelectron microscopic localization of epidermal growth factor in the eccrine and apocrine sweat glands.

The normal human eccrine and apocrine glands.

Preliminary to a study of benign appendageal tumors of the skin, the results of which will be published separately, the following study of normal apocrine and eccrine glands was undertaken. The use of the periodic acid-Schiff (PAS) and Alcian Blue (AB) stains separately on tissue sections and the clarification of the two color reactions of the PAS stain by Alcian Blue (1) has lead to a better h...

Electron microscopic study on human eccrine sweat glands.

Electron microscope observations on eccrine sweat glands have been carried out by many workers, namely on human eccrine swear glands by HIBBS (1958), IIJIMA (1959), CHRALES (1960), KUROSUMI et al. (1960), and MUNGER (1961) and on those of animals by KITAMURA (1958), MUNGER et al. (1961), ELLIS et al. (1961), MATSUZAWA et al. (1963), KUROSUMI et al. (1964) and TERZAKIS (1964). Already by means o...

Secretion of eccrine sweat glands during exercise.

The Ultrastructure and Histophysiology of Human Eccrine Sweat Glands

The electron microscopy of human eccrine sweat glands has been studied before and after stimulation by pilocarpine iontophoresis. The identity of the dark and clear cells in the secretory segment as defined by Montagna et al. (23) was determined by studying serial sections, thin for electron microscopy and thick for light microscopy. Cells with numerous apical secretory vacuoles are termed muco...

Metabolic studies of isolated human eccrine sweat glands.

This paper describes a method for isolating and studying the metabolism of human eccrine sweat glands. (a) Electron microscopy of glands which had been isolated and then incubated for an hour revealed no apparent alteration in morphology. (b) Known variation in gland size (male > female > children) was reflected in the relative rates of lactate production. (c) Lactate production was approximate...