Areolar glands (also called glands of Montgomery) are sebaceous glands in the nipple that secrete a lipoid fluid. The glands’ function is not fully known, but it has been suggested that the glands and ...

Treating obese mice with the cytokine known as TSLP led to significant abdominal fat and weight loss compared to controls. The animal model findings support the possibility that increasing sebum ...

Generally the result of age- related decreases in androgen production, sebaceous hyperplasia is characterized by common asymptomatic papules. The condition occurs most frequently in healthy ...

Immune pathway that causes eyelid sebaceous, or Meibomian gland dysfunction (MGD). In the lymph node, T helper 17 (TH17) lymphocytes are activated by dendritic cells (DC), which involves ...

Here we have developed a novel method of culturing human sebocytes without transformation and using a feeder layer-free culture system to examine the role of the TGFβ pathway in the control of ...