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Eccrine sweat glands (A) and the proximal regions of their ducts (B) are illustrated in this micrograph. The secretory
Holdings,
glands are more lightly stained than the ducts. The eccrine sweat glands and ducts in this image are located near
the dermis-hypodermis junction.
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Eccrine sweat glands are widely distributed throughout the body except for the lips and external genital regions.
Not
Unlike the sebaceous glands and the apocrine sweat glands, they are not associated with hair follicles. These coiled
to
tubular glands are lined with cuboidal cells, under which there are myoepithelial cells. The eccrine sweat glands were
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used as examples of the location of stratified cuboidal epithelium.
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