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These are spinneret glands on the abdomen of a spider.
Females, like males, have in our bodies something called the adrenal glands.
And the adrenal glands make androgens, which are a masculinizing hormone.
He had XX chromosomes, and in the womb, his adrenal glands were in such high gear that it created, essentially, a masculine hormonal environment.
So if you ever have the opportunity to dissect an orb-web-weaving spider, and I hope you do, what you would find is a bounty of beautiful, translucent silk glands.
Inside each spider, there are hundreds of silk glands, sometimes thousands.
In an orb-web-weaving spider, you can find seven types of silk glands, and what I have depicted here in this picture, let's start at the one o'clock position, there's tubuliform silk glands, which are used to make the outer silk of an egg sac.
There's the aggregate and flagelliform silk glands which combine to make the sticky capture spiral of an orb web.
It has pores, it has sweat glands, it has all these things that work together very dynamically and very efficiently, and so what I propose is that our building skins should be more similar to human skin, and by doing so can be much more dynamic, responsive and differentiated, depending on where it is.
It's made by your adrenal glands.
We can extract epinephrine from the adrenal glands of sheep or cattle, but that's not where this stuff comes from.
The endocrine system relies on interactions between three features to do its job: glands, hormones, and trillions of cell receptors.
Firstly, there are several hormone-producing glands: three in your brain, and seven in the rest of your body.
Sometimes disease, stress, and even diet can disrupt that regulatory function, however, altering the quantity of hormones that glands secrete or changing the way that cells respond.
That’s the network that communicates with adrenal glands and internal organs to help regulate functions like heart rate, digestion, and respiration.
It’s one of thousands of animal species, like frogs, jellyfish, salamanders, and snakes, that use toxic chemicals to defend themselves – in this case, by spewing poisonous liquid from glands in its abdomen.
When they’re threatened, the valve between the chambers opens and the substances combine in a violent chemical reaction that sends a corrosive spray shooting out of the glands, passing through a hardened chamber that protects the beetle’s internal tissues.
Ultra-endurance was once thought to be harmful to human health, but now we realize that we have all these traits that are perfect for ultra-endurance: no body fur and a glut of sweat glands that keep us cool while running; narrow waists and long legs compared to our frames; large surface area of joints for shock absorption.
Along with the pubic hair and the hair in the armpits, new glands start to secrete in those places, and that's what's making the change in smell.
The other primates have scent glands in other parts of the body.
The great apes have these armpits full of secretory glands producing smells all the time, enormous numbers of molecules.
When they're secreted from the glands, the molecules are odorless.
Her nipple is completely hidden by the baby's head, but what you'll notice is a white droplet with an arrow pointing to it, and that's the secretion from the areolar glands.
But if we go to any mother who is secreting from the areolar glands, so it's not about recognition, it can be from any mother, if we take the secretion and now put it under the baby's nose, we get a very different reaction.
It's because women vary in the number of areolar glands that they have, and there is a correlation between the ease with which babies start to suckle and the number of areolar glands she has.
Like endocrinal glands and hormones, there are those gases which I told you about before, that are formed and released into the atmosphere, like hormones, which help in the formation of rain.
Cortisol is a major stress hormone involved in making skin cells churn out oily lipids from special glands called sebaceous glands.
She has special lacrimal glands to make new tears and special tubes, called lacrimal puncta, to drain old ones away.
The needles punch through the epidermis, allowing ink to seep deep into the dermis, which is composed of collagen fibers, nerves, glands, blood vessels and more.
But sometimes a wound penetrates into the dermis, which contains blood vessels and the various glands and nerve endings that enable the skin's many functions.