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HIBBS1 has demonstrated the existence of intercellular canaliculi in human eccrine sweat glands by electron microscopy and found them to be situated in the coiled secretory portion of the glands only. He was unable to recognize intracellular canaliculi, however. These intercellular canaliculi can be seen from his illustrations to be lined by a plasma membrane which shows many micro-villi projecting into the lumen. This lumen contains a moderately homogeneous matrix of low density and several indistinct granular profiles, possibly in the nature of a secretion.
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Hibbs, R. G., Amer. J. Anat., 103, 201 (1958).
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SCOTT, T. Intracellular Canals in Human Sweat Glands. Nature 188, 158–159 (1960). https://doi.org/10.1038/188158a0
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