Pharmacological Responsiveness of Sweat Glands in Anxious Patients and Healthy Volunteers

1982 ◽  
Vol 141 (2) ◽  
pp. 154-161 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shani Maple ◽  
C. M. Bradshaw ◽  
E. Szabadi
Keyword(s):  
Healthy Volunteers ◽  
Dose Response ◽  
Sweat Gland ◽  
Sweat Glands ◽  
Response Curves ◽  
Anxiety Neurosis ◽  
Female Patients ◽  
Dose Response Curves ◽  
Eccrine Sweat Glands ◽  
Eccrine Sweat

SummaryThe responsiveness of eccrine sweat glands to local intradermal injections of carbachol and phenylephrine was studied in six male and six female healthy volunteers and six female patients suffering from anxiety neurosis, using a plastic paint impression method. Carbachol evoked consistently greater responses than phenylephrine. The response to carbachol attained a peak approximately two minutes after injection, whereas the response to phenylephrine attained a peak within fifteen seconds of the injection. Males showed greater responsiveness to both drugs than females, this being reflected in significantly higher maxima of the dose-response curves for the males. The anxious females showed a higher level of spontaneous sweat gland activity and greater responsiveness to both drugs (reflected in higher maxima of the dose-response curves) than the normal females.

Pharmacologic responsiveness of isolated single eccrine sweat glands

1981 ◽  
Vol 240 (1) ◽  
pp. R44-R51 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Sato ◽  
F. Sato
Keyword(s):  
Dose Response ◽  
Dissociation Constants ◽  
Sweat Rate ◽  
Sweat Glands ◽  
Adrenergic Agonist ◽  
Beta Adrenergic ◽  
Adrenergic Agents ◽  
Eccrine Sweat Glands ◽  
Eccrine Sweat

Pharmacologic responsiveness of the eccrine sweat gland has never been studied under well-defined in vitro experimental conditions. Using isolated cannulated single monkey palm eccrine sweat glands, the dose response to both cholinergic and alpha- and beta-adrenergic agents and the effects of various antagonists on agonists were studied. The maximal sweat rate was highest after stimulation with cholinergic agonists, was lower with the beta-adrenergic agonist, and was least with the alpha-adrenergic agonist. Each secretory response was inhibited by its specific antagonist. Attempts to demonstrate the spare receptor, if any, by means of preincubation of the glands with N-(2-chlorethyl)dibenzylamine (Dibenamine) were unsuccessful. From the hyperbolic dose-response curves the values for KA and KB, dissociation constants for agonists and antagonists, respectively, were thus tentatively estimated according to Clark's classical receptor theory. Schild plots for each agonist-antagonist interaction produced straight lines with slopes of near unity, indicating the adequacy of the methodology. It was concluded that the isolated eccrine sweat glands retain their pharmacologic viability in vitro and show responsiveness to cholinergic as well as both alpha- and beta-adrenergic stimulations.

scholarly journals Malignant Eccrine Spiradenoma of the External Auditory Canal: A Case Report and Literature Review

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dong You ◽  
Zhao Ma ◽  
Jing Liu ◽  
Xiao Song ◽  
Wei Dong
Keyword(s):  
Case Report ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
External Auditory Canal ◽  
Sweat Gland ◽  
Sweat Glands ◽  
Gland Tumor ◽  
Sweat Gland Tumor ◽  
Eccrine Sweat Glands ◽  
Eccrine Sweat

Spiradenocarcinoma, or malignant eccrine spiradenoma (MES), is a rare sweat gland tumor originating from eccrine sweat glands. To the best of our knowledge, only two cases of MES of the external auditory canal have been reported to date. Here, we report a third case of MES located in the external auditory canal.

scholarly journals Comparative evidence for the independent evolution of hair and sweat gland traits in primates

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yana G. Kamberov ◽  
Samantha M. Guhan ◽  
Alessandra DeMarchis ◽  
Judy Jiang ◽  
Sara Sherwood Wright ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sweat Gland ◽  
Hair Follicles ◽  
Sweat Glands ◽  
Eccrine Gland ◽  
Hair Density ◽  
External Appearance ◽  
Human Feature ◽  
Close Relatives ◽  
Eccrine Sweat Glands ◽  
Eccrine Sweat

AbstractHumans differ in many respects from other primates, but perhaps no derived human feature is more striking than our naked skin. Long purported to be adaptive, humans’ unique external appearance is characterized by changes in both the patterning of hair follicles and eccrine sweat glands, producing decreased hair cover and increased sweat gland density. Despite the conspicuousness of these features and their potential evolutionary importance, there is a lack of clarity regarding how they evolved within the primate lineage. We thus collected and quantified the density of hair follicles and eccrine sweat glands from five regions of the skin in three species of primates: macaque, chimpanzee and human. Although human hair cover is greatly attenuated relative to that of our close relatives, we find that humans have a chimpanzee-like hair density that is significantly lower than that of macaques. In contrast, eccrine gland density is on average 10-fold higher in humans compared to chimpanzees and macaques, whose density is strikingly similar. Our findings suggest that a decrease in hair density in the ancestors of humans and apes was followed by an increase in eccrine gland density and a reduction in fur cover in humans. This work answers longstanding questions about the traits that make human skin unique and substantiates a model in which the evolution of expanded eccrine gland density was exclusive to the human lineage.

Freeze-Fracture Examination of Tight Junctions of Human Eccrine Sweat Glands

1980 ◽  
Vol 38 ◽  
pp. 634-635
Author(s):  
J. V. Briggman ◽  
J. Bigelow ◽  
H. Bank ◽  
S. S. Spicer
Keyword(s):  
Cystic Fibrosis ◽  
Freeze Fracture ◽  
Sweat Glands ◽  
Hypertonic Solution ◽  
Dark Cells ◽  
Clear Cells ◽  
Junctional Complexes ◽  
Secretory Coil ◽  
Eccrine Sweat Glands ◽  
Eccrine Sweat

The prevalence of strands shown by freeze-fracture in the zonula occludens of junctional complexes is thought to correspond closely with the transepi-thelial electrical resistance and with the tightness of the junction and its obstruction to paracellular flow.1 The complexity of the network of junc¬tional complex strands does not appear invariably related to the degree of tightness of the junction, however, as rabbit ileal junctions have a complex network of strands and are permeable to lanthanum. In human eccrine sweat glands the extent of paracellular relative to transcellular flow remains unknown, both for secretion of the isotonic precursor fluid by the coil and for resorption of a hypertonic solution by the duct. The studies reported here undertook, therefore, to determine with the freeze-fracture technique the complexity of the network of ridges in the junctional complexes between cells in the secretory coil and the sweat ducts. Glands from a patient with cystic fibrosis were also examined because an alteration in junctional strands could underlie the decreased Na+ resorption by sweat ducts in this disease. Freeze-fracture replicas were prepared by standard procedures on isolated coil and duct segments of human sweat glands. Junctional complexes between clear cells, between dark cells and between clear and dark cells on the main lumen, and between clear cells on intercellular canaliculi of the coil con¬tained abundant anastomosing closely spaced strands averaging 6.4 + 0.7 (mean + SE) and 9.0 +0.5 (Fig. 1) per complex, respectively. Thus, the junctions in the intercellular canaliculi of the coil appeared comparable in complexity to those of tight epithlia. Occasional junctions exhibited, in addition, 2 to 5 widely spaced anastomosing strands in a very close network basal to the compact network. The fewer junctional complexes observed thus far between the superficial duct cells consisted on the average of 6 strands arranged in a close network and 1 to 4 underlying strands that lay widely separated from one another (Fig. 2). The duct epitelium would, thus, be judged slightly more "leaky" than the coil. Infrequent junctional complexes observed to date in the secretory coil segment of a cystic fibrosis specimen disclosed rela¬tively few closely crowded strands.

Dose-response Curves in the Fibrin Plate Assay Fibrinolytic Activity of Proteases

1974 ◽  
Vol 32 (02/03) ◽  
pp. 356-365 ◽  
Author(s):  
F Haverkate ◽  
D. W Traas
Keyword(s):  
Dose Response ◽  
Fibrinolytic Activity ◽  
Enzyme Concentration ◽  
Response Curves ◽  
Agar Gel ◽  
Porcine Tissue ◽  
Plate Assay ◽  
Fibrin Plate ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Dose Response Curves

SummaryIn the fibrin plate assay different types of relationships between the dose of applied proteolytic enzyme and the response have been previously reported. This study was undertaken to determine whether a generally valid relationship might exist.Trypsin, chymotrypsin, papain, the plasminogen activator urokinase and all of the microbial proteases investigated, including brinase gave a linear relationship between the logarithm of the enzyme concentration and the diameter of the circular lysed zone. A similar linearity of dose-response curves has frequently been found by investigators who used enzyme plate assays with substrates different from fibrin incorporated in an agar gel. Consequently, it seems that this linearity of dose-response curves is generally valid for the fibrin plate assay as well as for other enzyme plate bioassays.Both human plasmin and porcine tissue activator of plasminogen showed deviations from linearity of semi-logarithmic dose-response curves in the fibrin plate assay.

BIOASSAY OF THYROID HORMONE USING HYPOTHYROID TADPOLES

1962 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 143-153 ◽  
Author(s):  
U. Henriques
Keyword(s):  
Thyroid Hormone ◽  
Dose Response ◽  
Developmental Rate ◽  
Response Curves ◽  
Sodium Salts ◽  
Dose Response Curves

ABSTRACT A bioassay of thyroid hormone has been developed using Xenopus larvae made hypothyroid by the administration of thiourea. Only tadpoles of uniform developmental rate were used. Thiourea was given just before the metamorphotic climax in concentrations that produced neoteni in an early metamorphotic stage. During maintained thiourea neotoni, 1-thyroxine and 1-triiodothyronine were added as sodium salts to the water for three days and at the end of one week the stage of metamorphosis produced was determined. In this way identical dose-response curves were obtained for the two compounds. No qualitative differences between their effects were noted except that triiodothyronine seemed more toxic than thyroxine in equivalent doses. Triiodothyronine was found to be 7–12 times as active as thyroxine.

Dose Response Curves for Microwave Ablation in the Cardioplegia-Arrested Porcine Heart

2005 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. E269-E274 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sydney L. Gaynor ◽  
Gregory D. Byrd ◽  
Michael D. Diodato ◽  
Yosuke Ishii ◽  
Anson M. Lee ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Dose Response ◽  
Microwave Ablation ◽  
Response Curves ◽  
Porcine Heart ◽  
Dose Response Curves
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