Sweat Glands
Published on Nov 25, 2015
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SWEAT GLANDS
- The bodies means of releasing waste products such as sweat and salts.
- Become active when undergoing emotional stress and high body temperature.
SWEAT GLANDS
- Sweating helps maintain your body temperature, hydrates the skin, and balances your body fluid.
- Two types of sweat glands: Eccrine and Apocrine
- Both types contain myoepithelial cells.
ECCRINE GLANDS
- Occur over most of your body and open directly into the skin.
- When body temp. Rises your autonomic nervous system stimulates the eccrine gland.
- The gland then secretes fluid onto the surface of your skin where it cools the body as it evaporates.
APOCRINE GLANDS
- Secrete a fatty sweat directly into the tubule of ten gland.
- Apocrine glands develop in areas abundant in hair follicles.
- (Scalp, armpits, and groin.)
- When under emotional stress, the wall of the tubule contracts and the sweat it pushed to the surface.
