apocrine sweat gland

The wolf has a large number of apocrine sweat glands on the face, lips, back, and between the toes.

Men have fewer apocrine sweat glands than women in all axillary regions.

Most non-primate mammals, however, have apocrine sweat glands over the greater part of their body.

Non-primate mammals have usually apocrine sweat glands over most of their bodies.

Apocrine sweat glands discharge in the canals of hair follicles.

Sweat is produced in apocrine sweat glands in the same way.

Uniquely the adrenergic innervated apocrine sweat glands remain functional.

These seem to be modified apocrine sweat glands which secrete a smelly coffee-coloured fluid during rut.

Apocrine sweat glands - whew!"

The significance of human pheromones and the role of apocrine sweat gland secretions in humans remains incompletely understood.

In 1922 Schiefferdecker suspected a pathogenic association between acne inversa and apocrine sweat glands.

Being sensitive to adrenaline, apocrine sweat glands are involved in emotional sweating in humans (induced by anxiety, stress, fear, sexual stimulation, and pain).

Racial differences also exist in the cerumen glands: apocrine sweat glands which produce earwax.

Hidradenitis suppurativa is a chronic cutaneous condition characterized by scarring of the apocrine sweat glands.

Apocrine sweat glands are coiled tubular glands that produce a viscous, cloudy and potentially odorous secretion.

Eccrine sweat glands are smaller than apocrine sweat glands, and they do not extend as deep into the dermis.

It is a mixture of viscous secretions from sebaceous glands and less-viscous ones from modified apocrine sweat glands.

The underarms and groin are rich in apocrine sweat glands, which produces secretions that are milky and usually odorless until acted on by bacteria.

Other structures associated with the hair follicle include arrector pili muscles, sebaceous glands and apocrine sweat glands.

Diagnosis is based on the demonstration of Lafora bodies within the apocrine sweat gland of the skin by an axillary skin biopsy examination.

For most mammals, however, apocrine sweat glands secrete an oily (and eventually smelly) compound that acts as a pheromone, territorial marker, and warning signal.

Aside from the mammary glands that produce a specialized sweat called milk, most mammals just have apocrine sweat glands on their armpits and loin.

In Fox-Fordyce disease abnormalities affecting the apocrine sweat glands causes inflammation, and enlargement of the glands and the characteristic intense itching.

Glands of Moll, also known as ciliary glands, are modified apocrine sweat glands that are found on the margin of the eyelid.

Apocrine sweat glands are larger, have a different secretion mechanism, and are mostly limited to the axilla (armpits) and perianal areas in humans.