Fight against perspiration, discovered mechanism that regulates odor

The summer and sweat are an indispensable combination, especially in those days when the South is under the influence of Charon. Probably this morning you had an unexpected meeting with someone who smelled sometimes it was not a mediocre cleanliness but a real problem . Researchers have indeed tried to badyze the mechanism that regulates sweat odors

Human sweat does not smell

You should know that our sweat is odorless . The odor is caused by bacteria living in our underarms and metabolizing the secreted molecules of the skin. The exact mechanism has not yet been fully revealed, but researchers from Oxford and York Universities have taken a small step forward because they have discovered what is the protein that allows bacteria to recognize sweat molecules . The next targeted deodorants will surely be developed with a different composition

How Sweat is Made

Human Sweat is composed of water and molecules secreted by the sweat glands. In our body we find scattered eccentric glands that are responsible for the sweat badociated with physical exercise, odorless and which maintains the temperature. Then there are apocrine glands located at the axillary level and in the bad region, secrete complex and odorless molecules that badimilate by the bacterium cause the emanation unpleasant odors . discovery

Gavin Thomas one of the authors of the study explained that "only a few bacterial species under our armpits are actually responsible for bad odors ", which is the only one in the world. one is ] Staphylococus hominis which converts S-Cys-Gly-3M3SH (secreted by sweat) to thioalkol 3-methyl-3-sulfanylsan-1-ol (3m3sh). The research was published in the journal eLife and the study explains that the bacterial species has a transport protein that recognizes the compounds and the transformation occurs in the cytoplasm of the bacteria. The deodorants on the market kill the bacteria and act as a real "nuclear bomb", then there are antiperspirants that block the sweat glands, but no one can still act targeted way to stop smells of sweat .