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Facts about Sweat

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Apocrine sweat glands essentially serve as scent glands.

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Sweat or perspiration is a watery fluid excreted by the sweat (sudoriparous) glands of the skin of mammals.

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Sweat is exuded or excreted from the skins suboriferous glands—sweat glands.

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Human eccrine sweat is composed chiefly of water with various salts and organic compounds in solution.

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Animals with few sweat glands, such as dogs, accomplish similar temperature regulation results by panting, which evaporates water from the moist lining of the oral cavity and pharynx.

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Apocrine sweat glands are limited to only certain locations in humans, unlike eccrine glands, and they do not function in thermoregulation but rather serve as scent glands.

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Emotional stress, nervousness, and excitement increases the production of sweat from the apocrine glands, or more precisely, the sweat already present in the tubule is squeezed out.

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Eccrine sweat glands are distributed over almost the entire surface of the body in humans and many other species, but are lacking in some marine and fur-bearing species.

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The urocanic acid in sweat also may offer protection for the skin against ultraviolet radiation (Kent 2006).

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Eccrine sweat glands are coiled tubular glands derived from the outer layer of skin but extending into the inner layer.

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Sweating is part of the intricate complexity of animals.

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The sympathetic nervous system regulates sweating, although the process can be stimulated by parasympathetic drugs (Stocking and Gubili 2004).

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Among domestic animals, cattle have a high sweat rate of about 150 g/m2/h at 40 degrees centigrade, while sheep lose but 32 g/m2/h and dogs lose but an insignificant amount (Blood et al.

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The sweat glands are controlled by sympathetic cholinergic nerves, which are controlled by a center in the hypothalamus.

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The dermis layer of the skin contains the sweat glands.

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Primates have armpits that sweat similarly to those of humans.

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Sweating occurs even in cool weather but is particularly pronounced in hot or humid conditions and during periods of stress or physical exertion.

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During exercise or in hot or humid conditions, the copious sweating in the armpits is not from the apocrine glands but actually from eccrine glands located in the same region.

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Sweating can serve both an excretory role (nitrogenous excretion, removal of excess water, and so forth) and a role in temperature regulation.

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The hypothalamus senses core temperature directly, and also has input from temperature receptors in the skin and modifies the sweat output, along with other thermoregulatory processes.

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The secretions of the apocrine sweat glands are thicker and more stick than the watery fluid of the eccrine sweat glands and contains fatty materials.

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Sweat contains primarily water, but also salts and metabolic waste products—primarily sodium chloride, urea, lactic acid, and potassium ions (Blood et al.

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Sweating (as well as perspiration) refers to the production, secretion, and evaporation of sweat.

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Sweat serves an excretory function for releasing excess water and waste products.

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Sweat contains water, sodium chloride, and small amounts of urea, lactic acid, and potassium salts, and is a much less concentrated fluid than blood plasma (Blood et al.

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Primates have armpits that sweat similarly to those of humans.

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The sweat of other species generally differs in composition.

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