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What are the 2 layers of the integument?

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  • Epidermis

- Dermis

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Describe the embryological development of the epidermis

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  • Is the superficial layer
  • Ectodermal origin
  • Basal ayer of ectodermal cells divide to form periderm
  • Further division of basal cells produces intermediate layers
  • Result is multilayered epidermis
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What happens to the epidermis in mid-pregnancy?

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  • Basal layers give rise to typical layers of stratified squamous epithelium
  • Periderm lost
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What are the cells of the epithelium called?

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Keratinocytes

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Describe the embryological development of the dermis

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  • Deeper
  • Derived from mesoderm
  • Mesenchymal mesodermal cells differentiate to connecive tissue cells (collagen fibres and elastic fibres)
  • Denser deeper into dermis
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Describe the hypodermis/subcutis

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  • Layer of loose connective tissue below dermis
  • Anchors skin to underlying structures
  • Thickness varies between species adn area of body
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List some adaptations of the integumen

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  • Hair
  • Skin glands
  • Footpad
  • Planum nasale
  • Hoof
  • Claw
  • Horn
  • Antler
  • Feather
  • Avian/fish scales
  • Beak
  • Ear
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Briefly describe the structure of hair

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  • Present in mammals
  • Epidermal basal cells proliferate into dermis to form hair bud
  • Aggregation of mesenchymal cells (from dermal papilla) projects into tip of hair bud
  • Epidermal cells grow around papilla forming hair bulb from which hair grows
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Briefly describe skin glands

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  • 2 types
  • Sebaceous and sweat
  • Derive from basal layer of epithelium
  • Presence varies with species and body site
  • some glands may be more specialised
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Briefly describe the structure of the planum nasae

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  • Prominent grooves in thick epidermal layer
  • No hair follicles or glands
  • Makes up black part of nose
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Briefly describe the structure of the hoof

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  • Keratinised epidermis
  • Arranged as wall (unguis) and sole (subunguis)
  • Attached to bone by folded dermis (corium)
  • Epidermis form outer wall of hoof
  • Periople is a rubbery band
  • Lamellae are interdigitations between epidermis and dermis
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Describe the formation of the solar horn of the hoof

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  • More similar to skin
  • Dermal area produces epidermal cells
  • Gradually become more flattened and keratinised
  • Migrate towards outside
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Briefly describe claws

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  • Equivalent to laterally compressed hoof
  • Softer horn on underside of claw
  • Adapted for tearing prey, running etc - very tough and highly keratinised
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Briefly describe the structure of horns

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  • Permanent, grow continuously
  • Heavily keratinised epidermis
  • Dermis (corium) closely applie to bone
  • Hypodermis minimal/absent
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Briefly describe the structure of feathers

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  • Highly specialised epidermal structures

- Core of areolar connective tissue inside feather

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Briefly describe the structure of scales and beak

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  • Overlapping plates of heavily keratinised epidermis

- Beak very compact keratinised epidermis appliec to bone

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Briefly describe the structure of fish scales

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  • Overlapping bondy plates derived from dermis

- Covered with epidermis

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List the functions of the integument

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  • Protection (pathogens, infection, physical damage, allergens)
  • Movement
  • thermoregulation
  • Display, communication
  • Production of glandular secretions
  • Storage (fat, vit D)
  • Sensory
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List categories of disease processes that may affect integumentary function

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  • Wounds
  • Inflammation, hypersensitivities
  • Parasites
  • Microbial infections
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Describe armadillo skin

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  • Demal plates making up armour

- Small overlapping epidermal scales called scutes (composed of bone with a covering of horn)

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Describe the features of the skin that act as a protective barrier

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  • Hair, stratum corneum, sebum, sweat
  • Prevents dessication
  • Chemical barrier (inorganic acids, proteins, fatty acids)
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Describe the feature of skin that inhibits infectious agents

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  • Normal microflora
  • esp coagulase negative Staphylococci, Micrococcus spp, Propionibacterioum acnes and Acinetobacter spp
  • Break down lipids to form antibacterial free fatty acids
  • Hair also has high microbial carriage but is not an active surface
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Describe the function of the skin in thermoregulation

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  • Blood flow
  • Sweat production
  • Hair also forms insulative layer
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Describe the function of the skin as a sensory organ

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  • Sensory nerve endings in dermis and epidermis
  • Sensitive to temp, pressure, vibrations, touch and pain
  • Merkel cells: pressure
  • meissener’s corpuscles: gentle pressure
  • Pacinian corpuscles: deep pressure
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Describe the function of the skin as an excretory organ
Small amounts of urea, uric acid, ammonia and lactic acid
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Describe the function of skin in photoprotection
- Urocanic acid and melanin absorb UVA and UVB - Nuclear capping by melanin protects progenitor cells from damage by UVA, prevents development of tumour cells - Skin thickness
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Describe the function of the skin in immunosurveillance
- Keratinocytes immunologically active (IL-1, thymic stromal lymphopoeitin) , can process antigens and stimulate response - Langerhans cells provide immunity and direct inflammation - T cells and mast cells in dermis (dermal dendrocytes) - Antimicrobial proteins
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Name the antimicrobial proteins present in the skin
- Beta-defensin | - Cathelicidins
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Describe the role of the skin in blood pressure regulation
- Stores Na+ (via cortisol and mineralocorticoids) | - Regulated by immune system cells and lymph capillaries
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Describe the role of the skin in vitamin D production
- Previtamin D3 from 7-dehydrocholesterol then isomerised to vitamin D3 - Basal and suprabasal layers of skin - Transported to liver for further metabolism
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Describe the role of the skin in nutrient storage
- Na+ - Fat, water, vitamins - Subcutis particularly
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Describe the role of the skin as an absorptive substance
- Especially drugs | - Lipid soluble e.g. steroids
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What separates the epidermis and the dermis?
Basement membrane
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Where are the hairs and glands situated?
In the dermis
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Where are nerves situated in the skin?
Bottom of the subcutical-dermal junction
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Where are the blood vessels used for thermoregulation in the skin?
Under the epidermis
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Where is the melanin layer?
On top of the basal membrane
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Give the layers of the skin from outside to inside
- Epidermis (5 layers) - Free nerve endings - Dermis: superficial then deep (glands, hairs) - Blood vessels - Hypoderma - Adipose tissue
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Describe the structure of the hypodermis
- Connective tissue of mesenchymal origin - Deepest and thickest layer - Variably present - Projects into dermis to protect hair follicles, sweat glands and vessels - Predominant cell is lipocyte
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Describe the function of the hypodermis
- Energy reserve - Themogenesis and insulation - Protective padding and support - Maintaining surface contour/shape
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Why is the hypodermis more susceptible to disease?
Small blood supply and so less lymphocytes
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Describe the structure of the dermis
- Connective tissue of mesenchymal origin - Insoluble fibres - Soluble polymers - Thickness of dermis determines thickness of skin - Divided into deep and superficial dermis - Contains epidermal appendages, erector pili muscles, blood and lymph vessels and nerves
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What are the insoluble fibres of the dermis and what is their function?
- Collagen and elastin | - Gives tensile strength
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What are the soluble polymers of the dermis?
- Proteoglycans and hyaluronan - resist and absorb compressive forces - Give spongy structure
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Describe the structure of the epidermis
- No blood supply - 5 layers within epidermis - Cornified envelope - Melanocytes present - Langerhans cells - Some nerves in the epidermis at the stratum spinosum layer - Thickness varies by location and species - Keratinocytes - Hemodesmosome between epidermis and dermis - Desmosomes between keratinocytes
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What are the layers within the epidermis?
- Stratum basale - Stratum spinosum - Stratum granulosum - Stratum lucidum - Stratum corneum
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Describe the structure of the melanocytes
- Derived from neural crest - Immersed in epidermis - Close contact with number of keratinocytes via dendritic processes forming epidermal melanin unit - Release melanin as membrane bound structres for transfer of pigment to keratinocytes (melanosome) - Long podocytes
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Describe the function of melanocytes
- Production of melanin pigments - Melanosomes needed in ear for hearing - Hair pigment production
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Describe the function of melanin
- Screen solar radiation (protection) | - Free radical scavenger
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What are the different types of melanin?
- Eumelanin (blace/brown) | - Phaeomelanin (reddish yellow)
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What is skin colour influenced by?
- Carotenoids - Oxyhaemoglobin - haemoglobin - Melanin
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What controls skin pigmentation?
- Genetic - UV light - Horomones - Melanocyte stimulating hormone (MSH)
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What is the function of the Langerhans cells?
- Act as immuno-surveillance units | - Professional APCs
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Describe the structure of teh Langerhans cells
- Located in the epidermis | - Tennis racket shaped or rod shaped cytoplasmic organelles on EM
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How do Langerhans cells carry out their function?
- Migrate from epidermis to dermis and regional lymph nodes on activation to stimulate T cell activation - Markedly reduced in UV light
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Describe the nerves that enter the epidermis at the stratum spinosum layer
- Pain sensation | - Non-myelinated
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Describe the structure of keratinocytes
- Large cells, epithelial origin - Complex internal cytoskeleton - Mainly keratins, some actin (provide strength) - Cytoskeleton attached to tight juctions (cell to cell), desmosomes (cell to cell) and hemidesmosomes (cell to dermal proteins)
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Describe the differentiation of keratinocytes
- Under influence of [Ca2+] - K5 and K14 in basal layers - K10 in upper layers
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Give the function of keratinocytes
Produce extracellular lipids (ceramides, cholesterols, fatty acids)
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Describe hemidesmosomes
- Epidermis to dermis - Strong link between keratin intermediate filaments and interstitial collagen in dermis - Pin dermis to dermis by long stetches of protein with loops around meshwork of dermis
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Outline how a disease is related to the complexity of teh hemidesmosome molecules
Bullous pemphigoid: antigens 1 and 2, collagen XVII, plectin and collagen VII - Are the anchoring fibrils
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Describe the structure of desmosomes
- Anchor keratinocytes to each other | - Linking keratin intermediate filaments and providing intracytoplasmic signalling
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Outline how the structure of desmosomes fallows congenital and autoimmune diseases
- Large number of proteins | - E.g. cadhedrins, protocadhedrins, desmogleins, desmocollins
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What are cadhedrins?
Calcium dependent adhesion proteins
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What layers of the epidermis are not usualy present in hair skin?
Stratum granulosum, stratum lucidum
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Describe the structure of the stratum basale
- Single layer of cuboidal cells - Proliferative and anchoring - Hemidesmmosomes and desmosomes
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What are the 2 types of cells in the stratum basale?
- Anchoring cells | - Proliferative cells (1/3 producing daughter cells, others padding)
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Describe the anchoring cells within the stratum basale
- Structural role - Attached to dermis by hemidesmosomes - Attached keratinocyte to keratinocyte by desmosomes
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Describe the proliferative cells of the stratum basale
- 1 in 3 - Mitotically active - One cell germinative, other differentiate - Influenced by variety of factors e.g. growth factors and hormones, inflammatory mediators (IL-1, IL-6, TGFalpha), drugs and vitamins e.g. vit D, retinoids
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Describe the stratum spinosum
- 1-20 cells thick - Thickest layer - Polyhedral cells - Prominent desmosomes - Upper layer produces involucrin (part of cornified layer)
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Describe the stratum granulosum
- Variably present in haired skin - Flattened cells - Shrunken nuclei with intracellular keratohyaline ganules containing profilaggrin and loricrin - Various lipids and enzymes secreted extracellularly to form water tight seal of skin
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Describe the stratum lucidum
- Not present in haired skin - Variably present in hairless thickened skin - Slightly flattened cells, shrunken nuclei - Intracellular keratohyaline - Increased intercellular lipids (ceramides, cholesterols, fatty acids)
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Why does the stratum lucidum stain poorly with H&E?
High levels of intercellular lipids (ceramides, cholesterols, fatty acids)
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Describe the stratum corneum
- Anucleate flattened cells (squames) of variable thickness - Plasma membrane replaced by cornified envelope comprising intracellular proteins - Cross linked with aid of filaggrin and keratins - Envelope is complex set of building blocks slowly replacing basement membrane - Hydrophilic bonding of lipids forms organised mortar between squames (lipids from lamellar bodies)
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What are the proteins comprising the envelope in the stratum corneum?
- Involucrin - Loricrin - Periplakin
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How does the concentration of Ca2+ moving up through the dermis?
Increases as move higher
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Describe the innervation of the skin
- Sensory nerves - Motor nerves - Free nerves enter epidermis - End at lever of water barrier - top of stratum spinosum, early granulosum - When injured, nerves increase over time
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Describe the sensory nerves of the skin
- Respond to touch, pressure, temperature, nociception, pruritus - Mechanoreceptors - free nerve endings - Rapid adapting and slow adapting
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What are the rapid adapting sensory nerves of the skin?
- Meissener's and Pacinian corpuscles | - Tylotrich hair
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What are the slow adapting sensory nerves of the skin?
- merkel cells - Ruffini corpuscles - Sinus hairs - Tylotrich pad
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What are the 3 layers of blood supply in the dermis?
- Deep dermal vascular plexus - Mid-dermal vascular plexus - Superficial dermal vascular plexus
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Describe the deep dermal vascular plexus
- Inteface of dermis and subcutis - Supply lower hair follicle and epitrichial sweat glands - Big vessels - Responsible for hair growth
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Describe the mid-dermal vascular plexus
- Level of sebaceous glands - Supply erector pili muscles mid hair follicles and sebaceous glands - Smaller - Around middle of hair level - Is the blood supply in telogen
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Describe the superficial dermal vascular plexus
- Just below epidermis - Capillary loops supply epidermis and upper hair follicles - Bypass vessels that avoid taking blood to skin, more control of vasoconstriction and dilation for heat loss
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What are the different types of secretion mechanism?
- Apocrine - Holocrine - Merocrine
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What is apocrine secretion?
Apical portions of cells pinched off and lost during secretory process
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What is holocrine secretion?
Involves death of cell, secreteory cell released and as it rbreaks apart, contents of cell become secretory product
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What is merocrine secretion?
Form membrane bound secretory vesicles internal to cell
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How do the cells of sebaceous glands form?
- Basal layer of germinative cells divide | - Differentiate to form large polygonal cells with abundant vacuolated cytoplasm
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What type of secretion is used by the sebaceous glands and what is contained in the product?
- Holocrine | - Sebum contains TAGs, other lipids (e.g. linoleic acid), transferring, IgA, IgG
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What are the functions of sebum?
- Lubricates hair and skin | - Required for normal hair shaft separation
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How is sebum excreted from the sebaceous glands?
Via squamous duct to hair follicle
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List some specialised sebaceous glands
- Meibomian glands (eyelid, fat, prevent dessication) - Circumanal gland (pheromones) - Supracaudal gland of dogs and cas (bald patch on tail) - Submental glands in cats - Preputial glands in horses - Infraorbital, inguinal and interdigital glands
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What are the different types of sweat glands?
- Epitrichial | - Atrichial
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Describe the epitrichial sweat glands
- Associated with hair follicle - Single layer of flattened cuboidal cells - Surrounded by myoepithelial cells - Holocrine - Coild and saccular or tubular - Below sebaceous - Swet into piliary canal just above sebaceous opening - Not innervated - Pheromonal and antimicrobial properties
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Describe the atrichial sweat glands
- Not associated with hair follicles - Single layer of flattened cuboidal cells surrounded by myoepithelial cells - Merocrine secretions (variants are apocrine) - Small tightly coiled glands - Restricted to non-haired areas e.g. nose, footpad - Nervous control
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List specialised atrichial glands and give the type of secretion
- Apocrine secretion - Mammary glands - Interdigital glands of small ruminants - External ear canal - Nasolacrimal glands - Apocrine glands of anal sac
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How is the watertight seal of the skin formed?
Various lipids and enzymes secreted extracellularly from the stratum granulosum
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What are the growth factors and hormones that influence the proliferative cells of the stratum basale?
- Epidermal growth factor - Insulin-like GF - Keratinocyte GF - Cortisol - T4
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Which species have epidermal rete ridges?
- Pigs - Horses at mane and tail base - Man

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