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I learned about a new *organ* recently!Not actually new, of course, they've… |
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(I learned of their existence because a mutual was having trouble with theirs b… |
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Post #Awo46l7Dr7YgQtY956 by [email protected] |
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Meibom is similar to, but chemically distinct from, sebum. It's oily, and s… |
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Anyway, each sebaceous gland is a tiny flask-shaped structure that opens onto a… |
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… the lymphatic vessels just have valves, so that the contraction and relaxat… |
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Each sweat gland is a tiny, coiled, unbranched tube, open at one end to one of … |
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So a sweat gland cell is adding and removing salts and proteins and water until… |
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In your pancreatic beta cells, the vesicles are being filled with insulin. In t… |
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In general, oily things aren't soluble in water, so you wouldn't make s… |
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@stevegis_ssg Well you got me to thinkin’ ‘bout things Meibomian, which set… |
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Adipocytes are specialized to do this and keep doing it and grow, making more c… |
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The resulting mixture of mostly fat droplets plus a little bit of cytoplasm and… |
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And so it turns out meibom is made exactly the same way. It just has a differen… |
