Talk:Merocrine

Distinction from/relation to eccrine unclear

so all eccrine are merocrine but not all merocrine are eccrine???? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 134.36.53.149 (talk) 18:43, 25 February 2012‎ (UTC)

From what I can find, they are not synonymous, but the terminology has been mixed together a bit. For example:

From the 43rd edition of Gray's anatomy (2026, page 35):

"(In merocrine secretion) Secretions that are initially packaged into membrane-bound vesicles are convenyed to the cell surface, where they are discharged by exocytosis...Glands such as the simple sweat glands of the skin, where ions and water are actively transported from plasma and then interstitial fluid as an exudate, were once classified as eccrine glands. They are now known to synthesize small amounts of protein by a merocrine mechanism and have been reclassified as merocrine glands"

This seems to suggest that eccrine originally meant active transport of water/ions across membranes, while merocrine is supposed to mean membrane-bound vesicle based secretion. Pabnau (talk) 19:18, 17 August 2026 (UTC)

Redundant Line?

The wording "secretions of that cell are excreted via exocytosis from secretory cells" is a bit confusing. It makes it sounds like we're trying to say that the secretions from that cell are excreted from separate secretory cells. Can we just take out "from secretory cells" and have it make more sense? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.170.154.102 (talk) 20:52, 4 May 2014 (UTC)

External links modified (January 2018)

Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just modified one external link on Merocrine. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:

• Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20090405055554/http://www.aad.org/education/students/glands.htm to http://www.aad.org/education/students/glands.htm

When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.

This message was posted before February 2018. After February 2018, "External links modified" talk page sections are no longer generated or monitored by InternetArchiveBot. No special action is required regarding these talk page notices, other than regular verification using the archive tool instructions below. Editors have permission to delete these "External links modified" talk page sections if they want to de-clutter talk pages, but see the RfC before doing mass systematic removals. This message is updated dynamically through the template {{source check}} (last update: 5 June 2024).

• If you have discovered URLs which were erroneously considered dead by the bot, you can report them with this tool.
• If you found an error with any archives or the URLs themselves, you can fix them with this tool.

Cheers.—InternetArchiveBot (Report bug) 07:15, 26 January 2018 (UTC)