Holocrine
| Exocrine secretion |
| Merocrine or eccrine – by exocytosis |
| Apocrine – by membrane budding (loss of cytoplasm) |
| Holocrine – by membrane rupture |
Holocrine (from
plasma membrane, which destroys the cell and results in the secretion of the product into the lumen.[1]
Holocrine gland secretion is the most damaging (to the cell itself and not to the host which begot the cell) type of secretion, with merocrine secretion being the least damaging and apocrine secretion falling in between.
Examples of holocrine glands include the
References
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- ^ Victor Eroschenko, diFiore's Atlas of Histology with functional correlations, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 10th edition, 2005. p. 41
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