Sweat or Sudorphic glands:
- They are coiled tubular glands which open outside directly.
- They secrete sweat which contains 95% water and 5% other substances (e.g. lysozyme, salt, ammonia, urea etc.).
- The sweat lowers the body temperature & excretes an excess of salts. The lysozyme found in it acts as bacteriocidal.
- The sweat glands in the rabbit are apocrine.
- In human beings, most of the sweat glands are eccrine or merocrine. But the sweat glands found in armpits, teats, eyelids are apocrine in function.
- Sweat can be called as diluted urine. In the rabbit, the sweat glands are found only at the margins of the lips.
- There are myoepithelial cells around the coiled part of the gland. The sweat is released due to the contraction of these cells.
