Eccrine Sweat Glands Play Role in Human Wound Repair Eccrine sweat glands, the most abundant appendage in human skin, unique to some primates, play a role in wound repair. (HealthDay News) – Eccrine ...

We've all felt it: At first comes the trickle, and then the flood. It's embarrassed us, and even torpedoed a presidential campaign. But when was the last time you were grateful for … sweat? Many are ...

"It could have been SO much worse," says Sarah Everts, the author of a new book called The Joy of Sweat, that is all about, you guessed it, the science of sweating. Turns out human sweat — our body's ...

Imagine two scenarios. In the first, you're hiking uphill on a warm day, beads of sweat rolling down your forehead. In the ...

Humans have up to four million sweat glands distributed over the body. Approximately three million of these are eccrine sweat glands. Eccrine glands secrete an odorless, clear fluid that serves to aid ...

Cold sweat is known as psychological sweat, while hot sweat is often the body's response to physical exertion.

The terms hot and cold sweat don’t refer to the temperature of the sweat itself. The fluid released is always at body temperature. Producing hot sweat is normal and an effective way for your body to ...

Researchers have characterized the structure of human sweat glands down to the single cell level; the findings clarify the functional components of these glands and their interactions with the ...

Are we almost at the time that it will be challenging to distinguish robots from humans? It seems like we're on the way there. Scientists at the University of Tokyo in Japan conducted a study that ...

The human body may be equipped with a separate sensory system aside from the nerves that gives us the ability to touch and feel, according to a new study. Most of us have millions of different types ...