PURPOSE Deodorant use during radiation therapy for breast cancer has been controversial as there are concerns deodorant use may exacerbate axillary skin toxicity. The present study prospectively determined the use of both aluminum-containing and non aluminum containing deodorants on axillary skin toxicity during conventionally fractionated postoperative radiation therapy for breast cancer. ME...

29 Activation of muscle metaboreceptors and mechanoreceptors has been shown to independently 30 influence the sweating response, while their integrative control effects remain unclear. We 31 examined the sweating response when the two muscle receptors are concurrently activated in 32 different limbs as well as the blood pressure response. In total, 27 young males performed 33 passive calf muscl...

The current study aimed to determine whether a peripheral modulation of sweating contributes to the lower sudomotor thermosensitivity previously observed in females during exercise. We examined dose-response relationships in 12 males and 12 females to incremental doses of acetylcholine (ACh) and methylcholine (MCh) for sweating (ventilated capsule), as well as to ACh and sodium nitroprusside (S...

Appropriate quantification of analytical and biological variation of thermoregulatory sweating has important practical utility for research design and statistical analysis. We sought to examine contributors to variability in local forearm sweating rate (SR) and sweating onset (SO) and to evaluate the potential for using bilateral measurements. Two women and eight men (26 ± 9 yr; 79 ± 12 kg) com...