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Yves Clermont, Michael Lalli, Zsuzsanna Bencsath-Makkai
LIGHT-MICROSCOPIC HISTOLOGY ATLAS

9. Skin

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9.19 Hair follicle and sebaceous glands

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Section of the neck of a hair follicle.

The following components are labelled:

Pale stained hair shaft (A)
External root sheath (B)
Two sebaceous glands (C), one with an excretory duct (*) opening into the space around the hair.

The sebaceous glands show their basal cells (arrowheads) and their lipid-containing daughter cells. In the sebaceous gland some epithelial cells degenerate (arrows) as they reach the excretory duct.

Stain: H–E
Magnification: ×900

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