GENERAL HISTOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -As soon as your body’s internal temperature starts rising, your hypothalamus (a small region in your brain) tells eccrine sweat glands distributed all over your body that it’s time to start cooling you down by producing sweat.

Detailed explanation-2: -Eccrine sweat glands occur over most of the body and open directly onto the skin’s surface. Apocrine glands open into the hair follicle, leading to the surface of the skin. Apocrine glands develop in areas with many hair follicles, such as on the scalp, armpits and groin.

Detailed explanation-3: -Eccrine sweat glands help to maintain homoeostasis, primarily by stabilizing body temperature. Derived from embryonic ectoderm, millions of eccrine glands are distributed across human skin and secrete litres of sweat per day.

Detailed explanation-4: -Eccrine gland sweating is the primary means of thermoregulation in man. The 2−4 million eccrine sweat glands distributed over the body surface regulate the internal body temperature by evaporative heat loss.