• The odor from sweat is due to bacterial activity on the secretions of the apocrine sweat glands, a distinctly different type of sweat gland found in human skin. (wikipedia.org)
  • The apocrine sweat glands , associated with the presence of hair in human beings (as on the scalp, the armpit, and the genital region), continuously secrete a concentrated fatty sweat into the gland tube. (britannica.com)
  • The human body has two types of sweat glands: eccrine and apocrine. (popsci.com)
  • Apocrine glands, however, are located in targeted areas of the body-the armpits, for example-and they don't really do much to cool you down. (popsci.com)
  • That's because the sweat you produce as a result of an anxious moment contains more apocrine secretions, which are the ones that contain those smell-inducing proteins. (popsci.com)
  • Do your best not to provoke those apocrine glands. (popsci.com)
  • Only mine is eccrine not apocrine. (cancer.org)
  • The glands of Moll in the eyelid are apocrine sweat glands. (histology-world.com)
  • There are two types of glands involved in sweating: eccrine and apocrine. (howstuffworks.com)
  • Eccrine glands trigger perspiration to keep our core temperature regulated, while apocrine glands release sweat as a response to nerves or stimulation, such as exercise. (howstuffworks.com)
  • In addition to the aforementioned ingredients, sweat from apocrine glands may contain proteins and fatty acids. (howstuffworks.com)
  • Miller J, Hurley H. "Diseases of the eccrine and apocrine sweat glands. (aad.org)
  • Sweat is produced in apocrine sweat glands in the same way. (howstuffworks.com)
  • However, the sweat from apocrine glands also contains proteins and fatty acids, which make it thicker and give it a milkier or yellowish color. (howstuffworks.com)
  • This type of sweat is particularly troublesome because it's produced by the apocrine sweat glands and contains fat and proteins. (harcourthealth.com)
  • The groin is one of only two other places outside of the armpits where sweat is produced by the apocrine sweat glands. (harcourthealth.com)
  • Scalp sweat is also produced by the apocrine sweat glands, which are in areas where there's an abundance of hair follicles. (harcourthealth.com)
  • But, the secretion of apocrine glands invites bacteria to feast upon it and causes strong body odor. (ayurvediccure.com)
  • Finally, there are the stinkiest glands of all: the apocrine glands, found in the armpit and genital areas. (livescience.com)
  • Chimpanzees and gorillas have a mix of roughly 60 percent eccrine glands and 40 percent apocrine glands, the Wageningen researchers report. (livescience.com)
  • Our abundance of eccrine glands and relative lack of apocrine glands makes humans, in a word, weird. (livescience.com)
  • Introduction to Sweating Disorders There are two types of sweat glands: apocrine and eccrine. (merckmanuals.com)
  • modified apocrine glands are found in the external auditory. (merckmanuals.com)
  • Although the histological features of apocrine and eccrine poromas are nearly identical, the presence of homogenous eosinophilic intraluminal secretion, lining cells with intensely eosinophilic cytoplasm, and small clusters of sebaceous cells surrounded by poroid cells is suggestive of apocrine lineage. (clinicaladvisor.com)
  • Apocrine sweat glands are found mainly in the armpits and produce an oily mix of proteins, lipids and steroids that can mix with microbes to cause body odor. (binghamton.edu)
  • also affects the apocrine glands and is discussed elsewhere. (msdmanuals.com)
  • Apocrine sweat glands are mostly confined to the underarm area. (roofingcontractor.com)
  • Compared to apocrine glands, eccrine glands are smaller, are active from birth (apocrine glands become active at puberty) and produce a sweat that is free of proteins and fatty acids. (roofingcontractor.com)
  • Sweat from the apocrine glands contain proteins and fatty acids, making it thicker and yellowish in color (hence those underarm stains). (roofingcontractor.com)
  • Sudiferous (sweat) glands are divided into eccrine glands, found all over the body, and apocrine glands found in the axilla, breast and groin region. (racgp.org.au)
  • While bacterial metabolism of apocrine sweat usually causes the malodour, eccrine sweating can also become offensive after ingestion of certain foods, such as garlic and alcohol. (racgp.org.au)
  • sometimes called merocrine glands as their type of secretion is merocrine, are the major sweat glands of the human body. (wikipedia.org)
  • Secretion of sweat by eccrine glands in the skin. (britannica.com)
  • Because respiratory water loss contributes little to evaporative cooling in warm or hot environments, cooling must come primarily from cutaneous sweat secretion. (nih.gov)
  • A Multicellular Model of Primary Saliva Secretion in the Parotid Gland. (rochester.edu)
  • When the sweat gland is stimulated, the cells secrete a fluid ( primary secretion ) that is similar to plasma -- that is, it is mostly water and it has high concentrations of sodium and chloride and a low concentration of potassium -- but without the proteins and fatty acids that are normally found in plasma. (howstuffworks.com)
  • Also, the composition of this sweat is significantly different from the primary secretion. (howstuffworks.com)
  • High sweat production (exercise, hot temperature) - Cells in the straight portion do not have enough time to reabsorb all of sodium and chloride from the primary secretion. (howstuffworks.com)
  • So, a lot of sweat makes it to the surface of the skin and the composition is close to, but not exactly like the primary secretion. (howstuffworks.com)
  • Yogurt is naturally acidic and it helps to control oil secretion of glands. (ayurvediccure.com)
  • Sandalwood makes your skin dry and reduces sweat secretion of glands. (ayurvediccure.com)
  • [ 3 ] Eccrine glands produce sweat, and an alteration in the rate of sweat secretion manifests as hypohidrosis or hyperhidrosis. (medscape.com)
  • It is the excessive secretion of the eccrine sweat glands in response to stimuli like heat. (hpathy.com)
  • Abolished InsP3R2 function inhibits sweat secretion in both humans and mice. (merckmanuals.com)
  • If you are worried that your glands are in hyperdrive and you struggle with excessive sweating, there are ways to help yourself from drowning in your own secretion. (thelist.com)
  • Eccrine glands are present all over, and typically secrete sweat that is mostly made of water. (popsci.com)
  • Simple sweat glands that secrete sweat directly onto the SKIN. (definitions.net)
  • The renowned news outlet revealed that when our body temperature rises, our eccrine glands secrete sweat, and our moisture evaporation helps cool us off when we start to get hot under the collar. (thelist.com)
  • Sometimes these Na+ ion concentrations can greatly increase (up to 180 mmol/L). In people who have hyperhidrosis, the sweat glands (eccrine glands in particular) overreact to stimuli and are just generally overactive, producing more sweat than normal. (wikipedia.org)
  • Hyperhidrosis is a medical condition in which a person sweats excessively and unpredictably. (medlineplus.gov)
  • People with hyperhidrosis may sweat even when the temperature is cool or when they are at rest. (medlineplus.gov)
  • People with hyperhidrosis appear to have overactive sweat glands. (medlineplus.gov)
  • When excessive sweating affects the hands, feet, and armpits, it is called focal hyperhidrosis. (medlineplus.gov)
  • Sweating that is not caused by another disease is called primary hyperhidrosis. (medlineplus.gov)
  • If the sweating occurs as a result of another medical condition, it is called secondary hyperhidrosis. (medlineplus.gov)
  • The primary symptom of hyperhidrosis is sweating. (medlineplus.gov)
  • These are prescribed for certain types of hyperhidrosis such as excessive sweating of the face. (medlineplus.gov)
  • Many people who sweat excessively do not realize that they have a treatable medical condition called hyperhidrosis. (aad.org)
  • Hyperhidrosis is defined as abnormally excessive sweating involving the extremities, underarms and face, usually unrelated to body temperature or exercise. (hpathy.com)
  • The main mechanism behind primary hyperhidrosis is the excessive stimulation of the sweat centres of the hypothalamus in response to emotion leading to increased secretory activity of the eccrine sweat glands of the palms and soles. (hpathy.com)
  • Some excessive sweating cases are diagnosed as hyperhidrosis, which is "an excessive production of sweat secondary to increased sympathetic nerve stimulation, regardless of conditioning or the physical environment. (thelist.com)
  • It is important to note that primary hyperhidrosis ceases when sleeping, in contrast to night sweats, which can indicate a serious underlying disorder. (racgp.org.au)
  • perspiration , in most mammals, water given off by the intact skin, either as vapour by simple evaporation from the epidermis ( insensible perspiration) or as sweat , a form of cooling in which liquid actively secreted from sweat glands evaporates from the body surface. (britannica.com)
  • Sweating is the body's built-in mechanism for keeping cool, but some experts believe that, because it opens up and unclogs the pores, perspiration is also a secret weapon for keeping our skin looking its best. (howstuffworks.com)
  • So maybe the answer to whether sweat is your skin's friend or foe isn't a simple one, but at least now you know a trick to keep it on your side: Let perspiration take its natural course, but once it's made its way to the surface, make sure to follow up immediately with proper cleaning and care . (howstuffworks.com)
  • The patch provides an unambiguous digital result that can be read in an electrochromic display and yields 95% sensitivity and 100% specificity when tested with artificial eccrine perspiration samples. (nature.com)
  • The duct of eccrine gland is formed by two layers of cuboidal epithelial cells. (wikipedia.org)
  • They consist of a coiled duct made from cells at the base which produce the sweat and then a straighter duct that reabsorbs some of the salt before the sweat reaches the surface of the skin. (thenakedscientists.com)
  • Low sweat production (rest, cool temperature) - Cells in the straight duct reabsorb most of the sodium and chlorine from the fluid. (howstuffworks.com)
  • Poroma is a benign adnexal neoplasm of the intraepidermal portion of the sweat gland duct, called the acrosyringium . (clinicaladvisor.com)
  • Hair follicle and skin glands and appendages, Steroid synthesis and function in skin, hair follicles and sebaceous glands, Basal cell carcinoma Gli and Sonic Hedgehog. (qmul.ac.uk)
  • Sebaceous glands, found all over the body but especially on the face and head, produce oils to protect the skin and hair. (livescience.com)
  • The tissues primarily involved are the skin and its appendages (hair follicles, eccrine glands, sebaceous glands, and, nails) and teeth. (medscape.com)
  • Beyond the Adrenal Gland: Dysfunctional Skin-Derived Glucocorticoid Synthesis Promotes Inflammation in Psoriasis: J Invest Dermatol. (qmul.ac.uk)
  • One key indicator in stress sweat is cortisol, a hormone produced mainly in the adrenal gland. (binghamton.edu)
  • Excessive sweating occurs without such triggers. (medlineplus.gov)
  • Antiperspirants -- Excessive sweating may be controlled with strong antiperspirants, which plug the sweat ducts. (medlineplus.gov)
  • Do any of your blood relatives have excessive sweating? (aad.org)
  • When did you first notice the excessive sweating? (aad.org)
  • But if you've ever experienced excessive sweat then you've probably wondered how to stop sweating , or at least keep it in check. (harcourthealth.com)
  • The most common place a person is likely to experience excessive sweating is the armpits. (harcourthealth.com)
  • Stinky feet could be a sign of excessive sweating and bacteria build up. (harcourthealth.com)
  • Areas of the face have an amazing amount of hair follicles and eccrine sweat glands, which means excessive sweating is possible. (harcourthealth.com)
  • It's important to keep an eye on excessive sweating no matter where it occurs. (harcourthealth.com)
  • Excessive sweating can also be a symptom of an underlying medical condition that needs to be evaluated by a medical professional. (harcourthealth.com)
  • Apply this chilled cucumber juice on your body with the help of a cotton ball to get rid of excessive sweating. (ayurvediccure.com)
  • 3 Bromhidrosis is due to biotransformation of odourless natural secretions into volatile odorous molecules 4 and is closely linked with excessive sweating. (racgp.org.au)
  • Eccrine glands are active in thermoregulation by providing cooling from water evaporation of sweat secreted by the glands on the body surface and emotionally induced sweating (anxiety, fear, stress, and pain). (wikipedia.org)
  • The white sediment in otherwise colorless eccrine secretions is caused by evaporation that increases the concentration of salts. (wikipedia.org)
  • When the body temperature rises, the sympathetic nervous system stimulates the eccrine sweat glands to secrete water to the skin surface, where it cools the body by evaporation. (britannica.com)
  • The rest of the body is covered with eccrine sweat glands, which secrete the sterile and salty electrolyte solution meant to cool us off through evaporation. (binghamton.edu)
  • Note: Deodorants do not prevent sweating but are helpful in reducing body odor. (medlineplus.gov)
  • If you are trying to reduce the odor you produce, Preti says that deodorants and antiperspirants do a decent job (deodorants mask the smell with a fragrance while antiperspirants reduce the amount of sweat). (popsci.com)
  • Deodorants mask or stop body odor, but allow you to sweat. (aad.org)
  • Sweat itself has no odor, but when bacteria on the skin and hair metabolize the proteins and fatty acids, they produce an unpleasant odor. (howstuffworks.com)
  • A shower can provide relief and help eliminate any odor that may result from groin sweat. (harcourthealth.com)
  • Body odor or pungent smell of the body occurs when sweat glands secrete too much. (ayurvediccure.com)
  • Dirt and sand get stuck on that sweat and gives birth of the bacteria and fungus and create bad odor on your body. (ayurvediccure.com)
  • It's long been known that some mosquitoes are tiny human-seeking missiles, homing in on the odor of our sweat. (livescience.com)
  • The proteins make sweat thicker, and as it breaks down it mixes with bacteria. (harcourthealth.com)
  • The Na+ ions are re-absorbed into the tissue via the epithelial sodium channels (ENaCs) that are located on the apical membrane of the cells that form the eccrine gland ducts (see Fig. 9 and Fig. 10 of the reference). (wikipedia.org)
  • But in these cases, the problem is in the CFTR chloride transporter that is also located on the apical membrane of eccrine gland ducts. (wikipedia.org)
  • Miliaria is a common skin disease caused by blockage and/or inflammation of eccrine sweat ducts. (dermnetnz.org)
  • Miliaria crystallina shows vesicles associated with the sweat ducts within or just under the stratum corneum of the epidermis. (dermnetnz.org)
  • Rana, R., Minhas, L.A. & Mubarik, A. Histological study of human sublingual gland with special emphasis on intercalated and striated ducts. (nature.com)
  • Zenk, J., Hosemann, W. G. & Iro, H. Diameters of the main excretory ducts of the adult human submandibular and parotid gland: a histologic study. (nature.com)
  • Medicines -- Use of some medicines may prevent stimulation of sweat glands. (medlineplus.gov)
  • Sweat can be made in response to nerve stimulation, hot air temperature, and/or exercise . (howstuffworks.com)
  • Recently, this device has been applied to cystic fibrosis monitoring, in which the wearable platform enables both sweat stimulation and chloride ions detection 12 . (nature.com)
  • Key technological developments to date include continuous glucose monitors, which use an indwelling sensor needle to measure glucose in interstitial fluid, and device-integrated sweat stimulation for continuous access to analytes in sweat. (nature.com)
  • Fig. 6: Sweat stimulation approaches. (nature.com)
  • The glands on palms and soles do not respond only to temperature stimuli but secrete at times of emotional stress. (wikipedia.org)
  • There are many other stimuli that can activate exocrine glands. (thenakedscientists.com)
  • But how much a person sweats during an intense workout comes down to a few factors, including whether you are male or female (since men sweat more than women), age, the weather, and genetics. (thelist.com)
  • Products containing 10% to 20% aluminum chloride hexahydrate are the first line of treatment for underarm sweating. (medlineplus.gov)
  • Botulinum toxin -- Botulinum toxin is used to treat severe underarm, palmar (hand), and plantar (foot) sweating. (medlineplus.gov)
  • Botulinum toxin injected into the underarm temporarily blocks the nerves that stimulate sweating. (medlineplus.gov)
  • Sweating is your body's major way of getting rid of excess body heat, which is produced by metabolism or working muscles. (howstuffworks.com)
  • More commonly known as prickly rash or heat rash, miliaria occurs when the eccrine glands become blocked, which results in a series of red bumps. (howstuffworks.com)
  • [ 4 ] A marked increase in sweat production on the nose occurs in granulosis rubra nasi. (medscape.com)
  • Unlike the armpits, the groin area is typically covered up all the time, which limits airflow that evaporates sweat. (harcourthealth.com)
  • When sweat evaporates from the surface of your skin, it removes excess heat and cools you. (roofingcontractor.com)
  • 1 First described in 1956, poroma was originally identified as a tumor originating from the eccrine sweat gland. (clinicaladvisor.com)
  • This study aimed to report and discuss the challenging differential diagnosis between a primary tumor of sweat glands and cutaneous metastasis of mammary carcinoma using anatomopathological and imaging diagnostic resources available today. (bvsalud.org)
  • The findings show the challenge in differentiating a primary tumor of the sweat gland from a metastatic cutaneous tumor of mammary carcinoma, even with the immunohistochemical resources currently available. (bvsalud.org)
  • Lack of sweating is called anhidrosis or hypohyrosis, says Eric Ascher, DO , a family physician with Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City. (livestrong.com)
  • Miliaria profunda (tropical anhidrosis ) is the result of sweat leaking from the sweat glands into the middle layer of skin (blockage at or below the dermoepidermal junction) following repeated episodes of miliaria rubra. (dermnetnz.org)
  • But unlike the armpits, the sweat on feet comes from the eccrine sweat glands. (harcourthealth.com)
  • Ive just recently been diagnosed with sweat gland carcinoma. (cancer.org)
  • Given these results, the authors discuss the difficulty in diagnosing differentiation from a primary or metastatic neoplasm of the scalp, with the resources currently available, until the conclusion that it was a primary carcinoma of the sweat gland. (bvsalud.org)
  • breast carcinoma, sweat gland carcinoma, skin cancer. (bvsalud.org)
  • Triggers -- Does the sweating occur when you are reminded of something that upsets you (such as a traumatic event)? (medlineplus.gov)
  • Human eccrine sweat is essentially a dilute sodium chloride solution with trace amounts of other plasma electrolytes. (britannica.com)
  • The sympathetic cholinergic fibers connecting with the sweat glands discharge primarily by changes in deep body temperature (core temperature). (wikipedia.org)
  • Sweating helps the body stay cool. (medlineplus.gov)
  • The sweating may be all over the body (generalized) or it may be in one area (focal). (medlineplus.gov)
  • But, dotted around the body, in numerous places, these cells form little structures that can secrete an array of different chemicals: we call these exocrine glands. (thenakedscientists.com)
  • This paper introduces a thin, soft wearable microfluidic system that mounts onto the surface of the skin to enable precise and routine measurements of secretory fluidic pressures generated at the surface of the skin by eccrine sweat glands (surface SPSG, or s-SPSG) at nearly any location on the body. (rsc.org)
  • But certain foods can still make you smell worse: if pungent foods contain fat-soluble compounds that dissolve in your body fat, they'll often get released in your sweat. (popsci.com)
  • Your best bet for keeping your pores clean and unclogged is to always wash your face and body as soon as possible after sweating. (howstuffworks.com)
  • The researchers had already determined eccrine sweat glands, which are located throughout the body, are important for wound closure. (eurekalert.org)
  • Without sweating, your body cannot reach a stable temperature and has the potential to overheat,' explains Dr. Ascher. (livestrong.com)
  • The sweat on your skin evaporating is what cools down your body. (livestrong.com)
  • Let's take a look at which areas of the body sweat the most and the causes behind it. (harcourthealth.com)
  • Surprisingly, the most concentrated area of sweat glands on the body is the soles of feet. (harcourthealth.com)
  • Eccrine glands secrete sweating that has no bad smell and it helps to keep your body cool. (ayurvediccure.com)
  • Sweat accumulates on your body and old sweat becomes sticky. (ayurvediccure.com)
  • Rosewater helps to keep your body cool, reduces sweating and sweet fragrance of rose water keeps you refreshed all day long. (ayurvediccure.com)
  • Eccrine glands, found all over the body, produce sweat to regulate temperature, but this sweat is mostly water with trace amounts of salt and other compounds. (livescience.com)
  • Eccrine glands are the most abundant sweat glands on the human body , setting people apart from most other mammals. (livescience.com)
  • Dogs, for example, pant to regulate their body temperature, because their eccrine glands are limited mostly to the bottoms of their paws. (livescience.com)
  • Much of her work since arriving at the University four years ago involves wearable microfluidic systems that can collect and utilize the sweat that our body produces. (binghamton.edu)
  • The reason I'm especially interested in sweat," Koh says, "is because it is the biofluid with the most chemical information about our bodies that we can get outside of the body. (binghamton.edu)
  • Eccrine glands are sympathetically innervated, distributed over the entire body, and active from birth. (msdmanuals.com)
  • Therefore, sweat does not evaporate and cool your body as efficiently as when the air is dry. (roofingcontractor.com)
  • Antiperspirants can reduce sweating. (aad.org)
  • Calming your nerves will go a long way towards controlling palm sweat. (harcourthealth.com)
  • Granulosis rubra nasi is a nonneoplastic disorder of the eccrine glands, possibly representing a unique form of sweat retention. (medscape.com)
  • causes inadequate sweating but is a central nervous system disorder rather than a skin disorder. (merckmanuals.com)
  • How often do you sweat excessively? (aad.org)
  • For many people who sweat excessively, certain situations trigger their sweating. (aad.org)
  • in Histopathology of the Salivary Glands 1-22, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-46915-5_1 (Springer, Berlin and Heidelberg, Germany, 2014). (nature.com)
  • Amount of exertion directly effects metabolic rate, heart rate, heat generation and amount of sweat generated,' says Heidi Prather, MD , a board-certified dermatologist with Westlake Dermatology in Austin, Texas. (livestrong.com)
  • The amount of sweat produced depends upon our states of emotion and physical activity. (howstuffworks.com)
  • CNN reported a set amount of sweat does not directly correlate with how hard you pushed yourself within a workout and has no bearing on how many calories you may have burned. (thelist.com)
  • How do our exocrine glands work? (thenakedscientists.com)
  • How do we sweat, how do our exocrine glands work? (thenakedscientists.com)
  • The exocrine glands are exquisitely arranged with a mix of different cell types in specific structures. (thenakedscientists.com)
  • Exocrine glands are very sensitive to the world around us. (thenakedscientists.com)
  • Exocrine glands are critically important for life - they take the simple watery bit of the blood and produce from it fluids that can propel our sperm and keep it swimming, allow us to digest and swallow our food, stay cool, feed babies, and less usefully allow our glasses to gradually slide down our nose. (thenakedscientists.com)
  • Thus, eccrine sweat is an important mechanism for temperature control. (britannica.com)
  • When sweat glands are working properly, they start producing sweat when the brain detects a sufficiently large rise in brain temperature. (thenakedscientists.com)
  • In a person unused to heavy sweating, the loss of sodium chloride during a period of heavy labour or high temperatures may be great ( see sodium deficiency ), but the efficiency of the gland increases with use, and in acclimatized persons the salt loss is decreased. (britannica.com)
  • Sweat consists primarily of water, as well as concentrations of sodium and chloride, and to a lesser extent, potassium. (howstuffworks.com)
  • The suspected diagnosis of cystic fibrosis was confirmed with a sweat chloride level of 120 mmol/L and homo-zygozity for the Delta F 508 gene on genetic studies. (who.int)
  • Cystic fibrosis (CF) is a genetic autosomal recessive disease that induces mutations on a conductance transmembrane regulator protein-cystic fibrosis conductance transmembrane regulator (CFTR)-which controls the excretion of chloride in sweat. (nature.com)
  • For this reason, patients with CF present higher chloride contents in sweat than healthy subjects. (nature.com)
  • After being lost to follow-up for number of mutations affecting the in the sweat and the urine, resulting in several years, he was seen again at the chloride channel, the commonest being hypokalaemia [ 3,8-14 ]. (who.int)
  • [ 3 , 4 ] Their original classification system stratified the ectodermal dysplasias into different subgroups according to the presence or absence of (1) hair anomalies or trichodysplasias, (2) dental abnormalities, (3) nail abnormalities or onychodysplasias, and (4) eccrine gland dysfunction or dyshidrosis. (medscape.com)
  • Eccrine glands are innervated only by the sympathetic nervous system. (wikipedia.org)
  • Peripheral biochemical monitoring involves the use of wearable devices for minimally invasive or noninvasive measurement of analytes in biofluids such as interstitial fluid, saliva, tears and sweat. (nature.com)
  • The forehead and upper lip are where you're most likely to see beads of sweat pop up on the face. (harcourthealth.com)
  • Eccrine sweat glands are found in virtually all skin, with the highest density in the palms of the hands, and soles of the feet, and on the head, but much less on the torso and the extremities. (wikipedia.org)
  • Sweat glands, although found in the majority of mammals, constitute the primary means of heat dissipation only in certain hoofed animals (orders Artiodactyla and Perissodactyla) and in primates, including humans. (britannica.com)
  • Shockingly, the outlet found that active people with a high fitness threshold tended to sweat sooner during an exercise. (thelist.com)
  • This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word eccrine glands . (definitions.net)
  • Dehydration is a common cause of not sweating or not sweating enough during a workout, especially during the summer. (livestrong.com)
  • Does anything seem to trigger your sweating? (aad.org)
  • Researchers have developed a self-healing sweat sensor that could provide useful information while you work up a sweat. (britannica.com)
  • The unique composition of human sweat appears to explain its tantalizing effect on anthropophilic mosquitos," wrote researchers Renate Smallegange, Niels Verhulst and Willem Takken, who study mosquito-host interactions at Wageningen University in The Netherlands. (livescience.com)
  • Understanding how skin microbes match up with mosquito meal preferences could help researchers to pinpoint important chemical components of sweat scents, they wrote. (livescience.com)
  • Similarly, people with cystic fibrosis also produce salty sweat. (wikipedia.org)
  • During periods of activity, sweat glands produce pressures associated with osmotic effects to drive liquid to the surface of the skin. (rsc.org)
  • But one popular theory-that the sweat you produce when you are nervous is more smelly than the sweat you produce if you are trying to cool yourself down-is actually quite true. (popsci.com)
  • The maximum volume of sweat that a person who is not adapted to a hot climate can produce is about one liter per hour. (howstuffworks.com)
  • Amazingly, if you move to a hot climate such as the American desert southwest or the tropics, your ability to produce sweat will increase to about two to three liters per hour within about six weeks! (howstuffworks.com)
  • CNN revealed that your fitness level could also play a factor in how much sweat you produce. (thelist.com)
  • The two glands differ in size, the age that they become active and the composition of the sweat they produce. (roofingcontractor.com)
  • Miliaria is also known as heat rash , sweat rash or prickly heat. (dermnetnz.org)
  • Prickly heat results from sweating. (dermnetnz.org)
  • In extreme conditions, human beings may excrete several litres of such sweat in an hour. (britannica.com)
  • Plain old human sweat, which turns out not to be so plain after all. (binghamton.edu)
  • Biology of the hair follicle and sebaceous gland. (qmul.ac.uk)
  • In other words, palms are most likely to sweat when you feel stressed, nervous or embarrassed. (harcourthealth.com)