The human body has two types of sweat glands - eccrine glands which produce a very watery sweat on most of our body's surface and apocrine glands which produce a thicker sweat in hairy areas such as ...

THE thyroid gland is a butterfly- shaped gland located at the base of the neck, and it is one of the most important glands in ...

(WYTV) – Here are some interesting facts about the human body: Just like fingerprints ... A pair of feet has half-a-million sweat glands that can produce a pint of sweat a day — and it ...

After Scott Kelly spent a year on the International Space Station, the astronaut returned to Earth in 2016 shorter, more nearsighted, lighter and with new symptoms of heart disease that his ...

Male and female reproductive systems allow human reproduction ... with seminal fluid produced by the glands to create semen, which exits the body through the penis. When ejaculation takes place ...

The pituitary gland is often subdivided into the posterior and anterior pituitary glands. The posterior pituitary gland, which extends from axonal projections originating from the hypothalamus ...

The nervous system enables humans to react to their surroundings and to coordinate their behaviour. It comprises millions of neurones and uses electrical impulses to communicate very quickly.

Both are secreted by apocrine glands ... behind what makes earwax and body odor uniquely personal, and how their variations influence skin bacteria. “Microbe composition in both earwax and armpits is ...

Here we have developed a novel method of culturing human sebocytes without transformation ... expressed depending upon the location on the body (scalp, chest, face), and localization within ...