“As the body’s internal temperature starts rising, the hypothalamus – a small region in your brain – tells eccrine sweat glands all over your body to begin cooling you down by producing ...

Eccrine chromhidrosis can occur anywhere on the body but is most common on the palms of the hands and soles of the feet, where the eccrine glands are concentrated. The sweat caused by eccrine ...

We have between 2-5 million "eccrine sweat glands" all over the body. Andrew Best, who teaches of biology at the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, has been collecting data to study why there ...

Stress-induced sweat typically comes from apocrine sweat glands, according to one 2019 article. This means that stress may not affect the sweat glands on the butt, which are eccrine, not apocrine.

“The eccrine sweat glands [are] what make the water in sweat when our body is hot,” Dr. Dee Anna Glaser, a board-certified dermatologist and president of the International Hyperhidrosis ...

THE eccrine sweat glands form a diffuse yet critical thermoregulatory organ for the body. Under the control of the sympathetic nerves, these glands provide the major defense against thermal stress.

Your body has two major types of sweat glands—eccrine and apocrine glands. Your eccrine glands produce the clear, odorless fluid you associate with sweating.

“As the body’s internal temperature starts rising, the hypothalamus – a small region in your brain – tells eccrine sweat glands all over your body to begin cooling you down by producing ...