The Japanese Journal of Physiology
Print ISSN : 0021-521X
STUDIES ON THE OXYGEN CONSUMPTION OF HUMAN SKIN TISSUES, WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO THAT OF SWEAT GLANDS
KOKICHI OHARA
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1951 Volume 2 Pages 1-8

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Abstract
Skin sheets obtained from the axillae of osmidrotic patients and from otherregions of the skin of a healthy subject were separated into four, or three, layers. The oxygen uptake was determined by means of the Warburg manometer.The total volume of the sweat glands contained in each skin slice wasestimated, and the oxygen uptake by the glands was calculated. The determinationwas also made on excised sweat glands.
1. QO2 of the epidermis varied from 0.52 to 2.11. That of the cutis was lessthan the above and varied according to the volumes of sweat glands containedin them.
2. The resting apocrine glands consume 2.70-4.02 times as large a volumeof oxygen as the volume of the gland per hour. These figures were 0.57-3.27in eccrine glands. The increase of oxygen uptake by pilocarpine was morepronounced in the latter. Much smaller figures were found on excised glands, probably because of injuries to the glands.
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