sweat glands are found primarily in or on the skin.
sweat glands are found primarily in or on the?
skin
in humans, the formation of body odors is caused by factors such as diet, gender, health, and medication, but the major contribution comes from bacterial activity on skin gland secretions. humans have three types of sweat glands; eccrine sweat glands, apocrine sweat glands and sebaceous glands. eccrine sweat glands are present from birth, while the two latter become activated during puberty. among the different types of human skin glands, the body odor is primarily the result of the apocrine sweat glands, which secrete the majority of chemical compounds needed for the skin flora to metabolize it into odorant substances. this happens mostly in the axillary (armpit) region, although the gland can also be found in the areola, anogenital region, and around the navel. in humans, the armpit regions seem more important than the genital region for body odor which may be related to human bipedalism. the genital and armpit regions also contain springy hairs which help diffuse body odors.
body odor
bullet::::- kearns–sayre syndrome, a disease of the mitochondria, involves abnormal mitochondria in eccrine sweat glands.





















































bullet::::- lafora disease is a rare genetic disorder marked by the presence of abnormal polyglucosan deposits. these "lafora bodies" appear in the ducts of sweat glands, as well as the myoepithelial cells of apocrine glands.





















































bullet::::- lichen striatus, a self-limited eruption of small, slightly scaly papules, includes a lymphoid infiltrate around eccrine sweat glands.





















































bullet::::- metachromatic leukodystrophy, a lysosomal storage disease, leads to the accumulation of lipopigments and lysosomal residual bodies in the epithelial cells of sweat glands.
sweat gland