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. 1966 May;184(1):203–214. doi: 10.1113/jphysiol.1966.sp007911

The local training effect of secretory activity on the response of eccrine sweat glands

K J Collins, G W Crockford, J S Weiner
PMCID: PMC1357555  PMID: 5921538

Abstract

1. The influence of repeatedly raising the body temperature by radiant heat to a level at which acclimatization to heat is normally acquired was investigated in two series of experiments, the first without the subjects sweating, the second with sweating.

2. In a second investigation local sweat-gland activity was induced by drug injections on successive days without raising the body temperature.

3. These experiments show that the increased sweating capacity characteristic of acclimatization to heat is a result of sweat-gland activity and does not appear to be induced by or to depend on an elevated body temperature.

4. Secretory activity results in a loss of glycogen from sweat-gland cells on the first day of heat exposure but not after the glands have been `trained' by acclimatization to heat.

5. The state of acclimatization has no influence on the threshold concentration of acetylcholine required to elicit sweating when injected intradermally.

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