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unusual facts about Gland


FC Gland

FC Gland, formerly Etoile FC Gland (etoile is the French word for star), or l'Etoile Sportive (French for Sporting star) is a Swiss sports club located in Gland.


Coccygeal glomus

The coccygeal glomus (coccygeal gland or body; Luschka’s gland) is placed in front of, or immediately below, the tip of the coccyx.

Countercurrent exchange

Thus, all along the gland, there is only a small gradient to climb, in order to push the salt from the blood to the salty fluid with active transport powered by ATP.

Dufour’s gland

The diversification of Hymenoptera took place in the Cretaceous and the gland may have developed at about this time (200 million years ago) as it is present in all three groups of Apocrita, the wasps, bees and ants.

Duvernoy

Duvernoy's gland, a gland found in some snakes named for French zoologist Georges Louis Duvernoy

Erythromycin/isotretinoin

This leads to an accumulation of the skins natural oils and bacteria (Propionibacterium acnes) in the skin (which feed on the oils and keratin) which further inflame the gland causing acne.

Fritz de Quervain

De Quervain's thyroiditis: Subacute, non-bacterial inflammation of the thyroid gland, often after viral infection of respiratory tract.

Glass squid

Often the only organ that is visible through the transparent tissues is a cigar-shaped digestive gland, which is the cephalopod equivalent of a mammalian liver.

Hemolytic disease of the newborn

The Neonatal Fc receptor which in case of humans transfer the maternal antibody from mother through placenta to fetus, in this case is involved in transporting the IgG1 antibodies from mother animal's mammary gland into milk and then again from the ingested milk across the newborn intestine into the newborn animal's circulation.

Hypobranchial gland

There have been studies on some species within the family Muricidae, because in those species this gland secretes the precursor to the historically important natural dye, Tyrian purple.

Mind's eye

Furthermore, the pineal gland is a hypothetical candidate for producing a mind's eye; Rick Strassman and others have postulated that during near death experiences (NDE's) and dreaming, the gland might secrete a hallucinogenic chemical 'N,N-Dimethyltryptamine' (DMT) to produce internal visuals when external sensory data is occluded.

Polyergus rufescens

She emits a secretion from the Dufour's gland on her abdomen, named after its discoverer, Léon Jean Marie Dufour, which includes a pheromone which subdues the attacked ants and makes them less aggressive.

Polytene chromosome

Some of the largest polytene chromosomes described thus far (see scale bar in figure below) occur in larval salivary gland cells of the Chironomid genus Axarus.

Sialoblastoma

A sialoblastoma is a low-grade salivary gland neoplasm that recapitulates primitive salivary gland anlage.

Suprapedal gland

For example in the suprapedal gland of the land snail Pomatias elegans there are three types of gland cells: cells producing mucoproteins, cells producing proteins and cells producing sulphated mucopolysaccharides.

Zeis

Gland of Zeis sebaceous gland located on the margin of the eyelid


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