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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
11 Pt 2
pubmed:dateCreated
1994-12-2
pubmed:abstractText
Secreting tubules, nerves fibers, and blood vessels in human sweat glands (SGs) were fluorescently stained by immunohistochemical and lectin methods for examination with a laser scanning confocal microscope (LSCM). Using these techniques, the three-dimensional distribution of up to three substances within a single specimen was investigated by collecting a series of optical sections for each of three fluorophores. Each SG received several nerve fibers. These branched into delicate bands of one or more axons that ran longitudinal to the sweat tubule then encircled the tubule. A heavy complement of capillaries was interwoven among the sweat tubules. Sweat ducts were accompanied from the SG toward the skin surface by one or two longitudinally oriented nerve fibers and capillaries. Immunoreactive staining of nerves was heaviest with protein gene product 9.5 antibody, but triple labeling showed that immunoreactivity to calcitonin gene-related peptide, vasoactive intestinal polypeptide, and synaptophysin was also present in the same axons. Substance P-immunoreactive axons were sparse in SGs but were present in other areas of the skin. The techniques used have considerable potential in examination of human skin biopsies for diagnosis of disorders affecting the somatic and autonomic nervous systems.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Nov
pubmed:issn
0270-6474
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
14
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
6825-33
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-14
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:7525893-Adolescent, pubmed-meshheading:7525893-Aged, pubmed-meshheading:7525893-Biopsy, pubmed-meshheading:7525893-Calcitonin Gene-Related Peptide, pubmed-meshheading:7525893-Child, pubmed-meshheading:7525893-Collagen, pubmed-meshheading:7525893-Female, pubmed-meshheading:7525893-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:7525893-Immunohistochemistry, pubmed-meshheading:7525893-Keratins, pubmed-meshheading:7525893-Male, pubmed-meshheading:7525893-Microscopy, Confocal, pubmed-meshheading:7525893-Microscopy, Fluorescence, pubmed-meshheading:7525893-Middle Aged, pubmed-meshheading:7525893-Skin, pubmed-meshheading:7525893-Substance P, pubmed-meshheading:7525893-Sweat Glands, pubmed-meshheading:7525893-Synaptophysin, pubmed-meshheading:7525893-Thiolester Hydrolases, pubmed-meshheading:7525893-Ubiquitin Thiolesterase, pubmed-meshheading:7525893-Vasoactive Intestinal Peptide
pubmed:year
1994
pubmed:articleTitle
Innervation and vasculature of human sweat glands: an immunohistochemistry-laser scanning confocal fluorescence microscopy study.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Neurology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis 55455.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S., Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't