It also makes hormones that control your blood glucose levels. Your skin is covered in sweat glands of which there are two types: eccrine and apocrine. Your eccrine glands open directly onto your ...

The basic structure of human sweat glands consists of a coiled secretory region deep in the skin and then a tube or duct that conveys the sweat to a pore at the skin surface. However, it has been ...

The glands that make you sweat could also help heal skin wounds, such as scrapes, burns and ulcers, says a new study. Human skin is rich with millions of sweat glands that help the body cool down ...

Every square inch of skin contains 20 feet of blood vessels, 100 oil glands and 650 sweat glands. It also contains more than 1,000 nerve endings that sense touch, pain, temperature and pressure.

This triggers the pilocarpine in the gel to stimulate adjacent sweat glands in the skin, causing them to release sweat. That sweat is carried through the microfluidic channels by capillary action ...

If your hair follicles get blocked in areas where you also have many oil and sweat glands, you may first notice them as pimple-like bumps on your skin. They may be in places where you normally don ...

Your skin is your body’s natural radiator, giving off energy when you get overheated via coil-shaped, sweat-producing glands. When the moisture reaches the surface of the skin, it evaporates ...