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Apocrine sweat glands are inactive until they are stimulated by hormonal changes in puberty. Apocrine sweat glands are mainly thought to function as olfactory pheromones, chemicals important in attracting a potential mate. The stimulus for the secretion of apocrine sweat glands is adrenaline, which is a hormone carried in the blood.
According to another suggestion, apocrine sweat glands were developed in the earliest period of human evolution via natural selection as a means of defence from predators as a warning signal, and that is why these glands are activated in the moments of emotional or physical stress.
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∙ 9y ago
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∙ 8y agoAn apocrine gland is any of several coiled, tubular glands which extrudes part of the cytoplasm as a secretion.
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What type of sweat gland produces pheromones?
Apocrine gland
What type of gland secretes earwax?
Apocrine sweat gland
Less numerous type of perspiration-producing gland found mainly in the pubic axillary?
The type of gland that produces perspiration is called an exocrine gland.
The most numerous variety of perspiration gland is the?
Sweat Gland(apocrine)
What type of gland discharges fragments of the gland's cells during secretion?
apocrine
What is another term for sweat gland?
There are several names: sudoriferous or sudoriparous glands, eccrine, and apocrine gland. The eccrine is found all over the body while the apocrine gland is found with hair follicles.
What gland is responsible for body odor?
Apocrine Glands
Apocrine gland function?
to reduce the friction in the axillae
What is the Gland found in underarm or groin?
apocrine (sweat) glands
What is most common and most numerous type of sweat glands is the gland.?
Eccrine glands are the most abundant sweat glands and they are also over your body and function throughout your lifetime.
What is the gland that produces natural body odor?
Apocrine sweat glands
What is the type of secretion in which no cytoplasm is lost with the product?
Merocrine Glands release its product and no part of the gland is lost or damaged.
