Dela Cruz, Albert Bryan R.

BSMT - 1 | March 5, 2022

Human Histology (MED 3)

Activity #6
Integumentary System

 Using the same format, do the following activities:

1. Illustrate and label human skin.

2. Identify the following cells and give their specific function.

 Melanocytes
 The melanocytes are irregular-shaped, neural crest-derived cells
which have many processes and extend between the epithelial cells
of stratum basale and stratum spinosum. Melanocytes are
responsible for the production of melanin, a group of brown-black
(eumelanin) and yellow-red (pheomelanin) primarily responsible to
the pigmentation of the skin and hair.

 Merkel cells
 Langerhans cells

3. Differentiate apocrine sweat glands and eccrine sweat glands.

 One of the glands found in our body are the sweat glands. As its name
suggests, sweat glands or sudoriferous glands, are exocrine glands found in
in many areas of the skin that produces sweat. There are two types of sweat
glands, the eccrine and apocrine. The eccrine or merocrine sweat glands are
found in almost every part of the skin (most numerous in palms and soles),
and are considered as the most common type. In this sweat gland, the
sweat produced is thin watery with little salts. On the other hand, the
apocrine sweat glands are found in the groin, the scalp and the armpits.
 Unlike the eccrine sweat glands, the apocrine sweat glands produce thick
secretions that contain organic substances, which usually has odor.

4. What are sebaceous glands? What do they secrete and to what structures are
they most associated?
 Another type of gland present in the integumentary system are the
sebaceous glands. These are simple, acinar glands that are usually
connected by a duct to the upper part of the hair follicles. It is responsible
to the production of sebum, a white, fatty substance that contains lipids.
The produced sebum of the sebaceous glands helps in lubricating and
preventing moisture loss in the hair and skin, and in trapping microbes and
bacteria. Sebaceous glands are considered apocrine since sebum is released
by the lysis and death of secretory cells.

5. Identify the following receptors and give their specific functions.

 Free nerve endings
 Merkel's ending
 Meissner corpuscles
 Pacinian corpuscles