More recent research has also shown that merocrine secretion takes place.

Although it is now known that their secretory products are produced through merocrine secretion, the name has not changed.

The term eccrine is specifically used to designate merocrine secretions from sweat glands (eccrine sweat glands).

Holocrine secretion is the most damaging type of secretion, with merocrine secretion being the least damaging and apocrine secretion falling in between.

Apocrine secretion is less damaging to the gland than holocrine secretion (which destroys a cell) but more damaging than merocrine secretion (exocytosis).