Think sweat is just your body's way of cooling down? These incredible benefits of sweating will make you think twice about wiping away those precious drops.

McCance, Rutishauser and Knight 1 studied the response to pilocarpine of the sweat glands of malnourished and healthy Bantu speaking African children in Uganda, healthy European children of the ...

Why do some people sweat more than others? “In my experience, the reasons people sweat more easily can vary widely from person to person,” says Dr Lawrence Cunningham, of the ...

Children tend to get it more than adults because their sweat glands are still developing. Prickly heat is also called heat rash or sweat rash. There are three types of heat rash, depending on ...

Anti-CD3 positive cells in epithelial and interstitial tissues The aim of the project was to quantify the distribution of anti-CD3 positive cells in and around the epithelial areas of prostate ...

Frequently, the optic nerve is affected. The researchers were able to show that in the thymus gland of humans and mice not only the epithelial cells but also B cells express and present AQP4 to ...

A single gene controls earwax and body odor, shaping one’s unique scent through microbes. In 2006, scientists identified the culprit: the ATP binding cassette subfamily C member 11 ( ABCC11) gene. 1 A ...

The calories the sweat glands burn to make sweat are minimal. When you sweat, you may lose a bit of weight due to water loss, but that weight is restored when you rehydrate. Physical exertion and the ...

Sweat glands are activated during the stress response—also called the fight-or-flight response—which evolved in humans as a protective mechanism to handle real or perceived threats. When the stress ...

Nasal airway secretions derive from blood vessels, submucosal glands, epithelial cells (including goblet cells), and secretory cells in the mucosa. [3] The nasal mucosa is protected by a secretory ...