Ultrastructural variations in the sweat glands of anhidrotic horses.
The ultrastructure of sweat glands from the skin of free sweating horses was compared with that of glands from anhidrotic cases. Evidence of atrophied and abnormal sweat glands in the anhidrotic horses indicates that the condition involves progressive failure of the glandular mechanism of sweat production.
D000818:Animals; D005260:Female; D006734:Horse Diseases / Q000473:pathology*; D006736:Horses; D007007:Hypohidrosis / Q000473:pathology / Q000662:veterinary*; D008297:Male; D013545:Sweat Glands / Q000473:pathology / Q000648:ultrastructure*