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CATTLE skin is abundantly supplied with sweat glands1, and these glands have been suggested to be functional2,3; but very little is known about the secretory control. Muto4 recorded that adrenaline produces marked sweating in horses and sheep but has no effect on the calf. Ferguson and Dowling3, on the other hand, observed the formation of sweat droplets in the calf in response to intradermal injections of adrenaline. Precise information, however, on whether the control of sweat glands of cattle is adrenergic and/or cholinergic is still lacking. We have therefore extended our experimental work on the cutaneous evaporation in cattle, in order to test the response of sweat glands to some of the drugs affecting the sympathetic nervous system.
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TANEJA, G. Adrenergic Sweating in Cattle. Nature 177, 482 (1956). https://doi.org/10.1038/177482a0
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