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Is Mediation of Sweating Cholinergic, Adrenergic, or Both? A Comment on the Literature
Author(s) -
Shields Stephanie A.,
MacDowell Kathleen A.,
Fairchild Sarah B.,
Campbell Mary L.
Publication year - 1987
Publication title -
psychophysiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.661
H-Index - 156
eISSN - 1469-8986
pISSN - 0048-5772
DOI - 10.1111/j.1469-8986.1987.tb00301.x
Subject(s) - mediation , sweat , cholinergic , psychology , apocrine , eccrine sweat , sweat gland , adrenergic , action (physics) , mechanism (biology) , neuroscience , physiology , medicine , anatomy , receptor , philosophy , epistemology , political science , law , physics , quantum mechanics
Research on SNS mediation of human eccrine and apocrine sweating was examined. Both types of sweat glands in humans are innervated primarily by cholinergic fibers and, at least sparsely, by adrenergic fibers. Both types of sweat glands are also stimulated by circulating catecholamines, but the mechanism for this action has not been unequivocally established. Recent research developments in the physiology of the sweat glands are discussed as they bear on persistent problems in psycho physiological research.