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Sweat gland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Apocrine sweat gland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Apocrine glands are composed of a coiled secretory portion located at the junction of the dermis and subcutaneous fat, from which a straight portion inserts and secretes into the infundibular portion...
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Sweat is your body's way of cooling itself. Learn about eccrine and aprocrine sweat glands, how the body makes sweat and what factors affect sweating. ... The average person has 2.6 million sweat glands in their skin. Sweat glands are distributed over the entire body -- except for the lips, nipples and external genital...
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Dogs have 2 types of sweat glands. The first type is called merocrine glands. These are located in the foot pads of dogs (and cats) and function to help cool the animal. The second type is called apocrine glands. These are located on most of the rest of the dog (and cat) but they do not function to cool the animal.
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Whether you flaunt sweat or pat on powder, it''''s all water under the bridge. In fact, sweat is 99 percent water with a dash of sodium chloride. It all comes from the three millionplus sweat glands scattered throughout your body.
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Britannica online encyclopedia article on sweat gland (anatomy), either of two types of secretory skin glands occurring only in mammals. The eccrine sweat gland, which is controlled by the sympathetic nervous system, regulates body temperature. ... Apocrine sweat glands, which are usually associated with hair...
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V-ATPASE LOCATION IN HUMAN ECCRINE SWEAT GLANDS Bovell, DL, Clunes, MT, Elder, HY*, Lindsay, S ... Vacuolar-type H+-ATPase distribution in unstimulated and acetylcholine-activated isolated human eccrine sweat glands.
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