Table 2 Percentage of nerve fibers immunoreactive for a specific marker in autonomic skin structures.

From: The autonomic innervation of hairy skin in humans: an in vivo confocal study

IR positivity

Skin Arterioles (91)

Arrector pili muscles (47)

Sweat glands (58)

DBH

100%

100%

10%

TH

100%

100%

95%

NPY

100%

0

0

VACHT

89%

45%

100%

VIP

93%

60%

100%

SUBP

97%

62%

85%

CGRP

98%

65%

98%

  1. IR = immunoreactive; the number in brackets represents the number of analysed structures.