apocrine sweat gland in dogs

Apocrine sweat glands are sweat glands composed of a coiled secretory portion located at the junction of the dermis and subcutaneous fat, from which a straight portion inserts and secretes into the infundibular portion of the hair follicle. The ducts of apocrine glands open into the canals of hair follicles. The stimulus for the secretion of apocrine sweat glands is adrenaline, which is a hormone carried in the blood[WP]. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the apocrine sweat gland is

Apocrine sweat glands are sweat glands composed of a coiled secretory portion located at the junction of the dermis and subcutaneous fat, from which a straight portion inserts and secretes into the infundibular portion of the hair follicle. The ducts of apocrine glands open into the canals of hair follicles. The stimulus for the secretion of apocrine sweat glands is adrenaline, which is a hormone carried in the blood[WP]. The atlas records it as a gland at the organ scale in the dog.

Where the apocrine sweat gland is

It sits within the integumentary system. Not positioned individually. Drawn inside the structure this dataset says contains it — the containment is asserted, the exact spot within it is not.

What the apocrine sweat gland connects to

The atlas records 5 typed relationships for it, across 4 kinds of connection. part of skin epidermis.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the apocrine sweat gland. Only a minority of structures carry those edges here, so an empty answer means nothing has been recorded — not that there is nothing to record.

Also called

Also recorded as glandula sudorifera apocrina. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0000382, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

Questions

Where is the apocrine sweat gland?

It sits within the integumentary system. Not positioned individually. Drawn inside the structure this dataset says contains it — the containment is asserted, the exact spot within it is not.

What does the apocrine sweat gland connect to?

Part of: skin epidermis.

Is the apocrine sweat gland the same in other species?

This page describes the dog. The human record of the same structure sits beside it on /compare, over one shared model rather than two atlases built separately.