... by The Company of Biologists Ltd 2014 Exocrine gland Skin appendage Hair follicle Ectodermal dysplasia Heatstroke Hyperhidrosis Mouse The functions of the skin, the largest human organ, are expanded by various appendages. Skin exocrine glands are secretory appendages that include sweat...

... to plateau-like skin appendages lacking an A-P axis. Feathers in the Wnt-7a overexpressing skin also had inhibited elongation of the P-D axes. This was not due to a lack of cell proliferation, which actually was increased although randomly distributed. While morphogenesis was perturbed, differentiation...