. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Jan 1.

Published in final edited form as: J Burn Care Res. 2017 Jan-Feb;38(1):e284–e292. doi: 10.1097/BCR.0000000000000372

Table 2.

Sweating before and after heat acclimation.

	Burn survivors with grafted skin
	17-40% BSA Grafted		>40% BSA Grafted		Control

	Pre Acclimation	Post Acclimation	Pre Acclimation	Post Acclimation	Pre Acclimation	Post Acclimation
Number of sweat glands activated (glands·cm⁻²)	50±17	55±16	49±16	56±18^#	65±15^*	69±16
Maximal sweat rate (mg·min⁻¹·cm⁻²)	0.46±0.23	0.51±0.17	0.43±0.19	0.50±0.24	0.41 ± 0.20	0.54 ± 0.21^#
Maximal sweat output per gland (μl·min⁻¹per gland)	8.64±4.50	9.33±4.19	9.06±3.73	10.27±3.61	6.70±2.77	8.41±2.28^#
MCh sweat rate EC50 (log molar concentration)	−1.40±0.47	−1.49±0.36	−1.39±0.49	−1.18±0.30	−1.12±0.13	−1.34±0.30

Different from <40% BSA grafted and >40% BSA grafted at pre acclimation (P < 0.05).

Different from pre acclimation within that respective group (P < 0.05). EC50: Concentration of the indicated drug that resulted in half the peak response.