During the development of sweat gland innervation, interactions with the target tissue induce a change from noradrenergic to cholinergic and peptidergic properties. To determine whether the change in neurotransmitter properties that occurs in the sweat gland innervation occurs more generally in sympathetic neurons, we identified a new target of cholinergic sympathetic neurons in rat, the perios...

INTRODUCTION Tumour and tumour-like lesions of the eyelids are more common in dogs than cats. In the feline, malignant tumours outnumber benign types, with eyelid neoplasms essentially arising from the haired skin. Based on 1 study, squamous cell carcinomas, fibrosarcomas and adenocarcinomas constitute 73.5 % of all feline eyelid tumours. Apocrine hidrocystomas in cats are rare, solitary and mo...

Endosomatic electrodermal activity (skin potential level, skin potential response and latency) as an indirect indicator of sympathetic nervous system activity was measured in 22 trained athletes during resting and after acute exercise. The aim of this study was to investigate the difference in skin potential parameters in trained atheletes before and after acute exercise on a bicycle ergometer....

Walter Gebhart, MD, Department of Dermatology II, University of Vienna, Vienna (Austria) The past decade’s explosive progress in dermatological research is not only tightly linked to ever improving biochemical, immunological or micromorphological methodology, but also grounded in partnership with rapid and reliable distribution of data at an international level. The paper ‘Idiopathic acquired g...