Is active sweating during heat acclimation required for improvements in peripheral sweat gland function?

American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology

Volumn 297, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Buono, Michael J ^a,b   Numan, Travis R ^a   Claros, Ryan M ^a   Brodine, Stephanie K ^a   Kolkhorst, Fred W ^a  

^a SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cholinergic sensitivity; Eccrine sweat gland; Pilocarpine; Sweat rate

Indexed keywords

BOTULINUM TOXIN A; PILOCARPINE; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOREARM; HEART RATE; HEAT ACCLIMATIZATION; HUMAN; HUMIDITY; IONTOPHORESIS; MALE; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM TEMPERATURE; SWEAT GLAND FUNCTION; SWEATING;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ADULT; BODY TEMPERATURE; BOTULINUM TOXINS, TYPE A; DENERVATION; ECCRINE GLANDS; EXERCISE; FEMALE; FOREARM; HEART RATE; HOT TEMPERATURE; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRADERMAL; IONTOPHORESIS; MALE; MUSCARINIC AGONISTS; NEUROMUSCULAR AGENTS; PILOCARPINE; SWEATING; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70349623182     PISSN: 03636119     EISSN: 15221490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00253.2009     Document Type: Article

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