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10443339

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
7
pubmed:dateCreated
1999-10-8
pubmed:abstractText
Thermoregulatory and emotional sweating can be distinguished in humans. While the first is organized via feed back mechanisms involving thermoreceptors, thermoregulatory centers in the brain and the effector system (sympathetic nervous system and sweat glands), the latter is generated directly by cortical and limbic mechanisms without any feed back. Sweat glands on the hairy skin can be stimulated by thermoregulatory mechanisms (rising body temperature), the emotional sweating on the glabrous skin as a result of an arousal reaction and they can be stimulated by peripheral acting cholinergic agents, which initiate direct or axon reflex mediated sweating. To evaluate sweating there are qualitative methods that visualize the sweat response or indirect methods like the registration of skin potentials. Alternatively sweat output can be quantified by evaporative measurement. For best results these methods should be combined. In this way autonomic dysfunction e.g. after nerve lesions, in polyneuropathies, central lesions and certain pain disorders can be assessed. The sudomotor function tests complete the conventional electrophysiological methods.
pubmed:language
ger
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jul
pubmed:issn
0720-4299
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
67
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
287-95
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1999
pubmed:articleTitle
[The assessment of sudomotor function for diagnosis of autonomic diseases. Principles and methods].
pubmed:affiliation
Neurologische Klinik, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen. frank.birklein@neuro.med.uni-erlangen.de
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, English Abstract, Review