INTEGUMENTARY SYSTEM

ACCESSORY STRUCTURES

                  Sweat Glands

-Sweat cools the body

-Merocrine glands

       *Sweat glands that stretch from the epidermis into the dermis

-Eccrine glands

       *Produces hypotonic sweat 

             -Made mostly of water

             -Some salt, antibodies, metabolic waste, and dermicidin, an antimicrobial peptide

             -Assists in thermoregulation

        *A lot on the palms, forehead, and the soles of the feet

        *Coiled glands in the dermis

-Apocrine glands

*With hair follicles in hairy areas (armpits and genitials)

*Larger than eccrine

*May be in the hypodermis

*Organic compounds in sweat, making it thicker than eccrine's

 -Smells bad

 -Under hormonal and stress control