Our patient had Fox-Fordyce disease, otherwise known as apocrine miliaria. A chronic, recurrent, inflammatory disease affecting the sweat glands, Fox-Fordyce disease is characterized by the presence ...

In the first, you’re hiking uphill on a warm day, beads of sweat rolling down your forehead. In the second, you’ve just ...

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 ...

Exocrine tissues are classified by type of secretion, for example serous, mucous or mixed, and mechanism of release of secretory product e.g. merocrine, apocrine, holocrine. The salivary glands are ...

Blebbing occurs when a call’s plasma membrane separates from its cytoskeleton and forms a membrane bulge filled with cytoplasm. This bulge will eventually separate from the cell, taking part of the ...

It's not your fault that you stink when you sweat. Your skin is one big petri dish teeming with bacteria. You wash most of them off when you take a thorough, soapy shower. But once you're out of the ...