title: Sweating and its disorders.
abstract: Eccrine sweat is produced by millions of miniscule glands buried in the skin. Eccrine sweating from the general body surface is an extremely important function in human thermoregulation; disturbances either in the control of sweating activity or in the glands themselves can result in problems ranging from minor social embarrassment to fatal hyperpyrexia. A general review of the function and control of normal sweating precedes an overview of sweating abnormalities.
mesh_terms: D000042:Absorption; D002712:Chlorides / Q000378:metabolism; D006801:Humans; D006945:Hyperhidrosis / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy; D007007:Hypohidrosis / Q000209:etiology; D007031:Hypothalamus / Q000502:physiology; D009422:Nervous System Diseases / Q000150:complications; D012964:Sodium / Q000378:metabolism; D012965:Sodium Chloride / Q000032:analysis; D013542:Sweat / Q000032:analysis; D013543:Sweat Gland Diseases / Q000209:etiology*; D013545:Sweat Glands / Q000166:cytology / Q000473:pathology / Q000502:physiology; D013546:Sweating; D013547:Sweating, Gustatory / Q000209:etiology
chemical_list: D002712:Chlorides; D012965:Sodium Chloride; D012964:Sodium