Stress in Health and Disease
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Stress in Health and Disease

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Stress in Health and Disease

About this book

Stress in Health and Disease presents the principal pathways mediating the response to a stressor. It discusses the clinical background of cross-resistance and treatment with stress-hormones. It addresses the diseases of adaptation or stress diseases, diagnostic indicators, and functional changes. Some of the topics covered in the book are the concept of heterostasis; stressors and conditioning agents; morphology of frostbite; characteristics manifestations of stress; catecholamines and their derivatives; various hormones and hormone-like substances; FFA, triglycerides and lipoproteins; morphologic changes; and hypothalamo-hypophyseal system . The gastrointestinal diseases of adaptation are covered. The schizophrenia and related psychoses is discussed. The text describes the manic-depressive disease and senile psychosis. A study of the experimental cardiovascular diseases and neuropsychiatric diseases is presented. A chapter is devoted to the diseases of adaptation in animals. Another section focuses on the shift in adenohypophyseal activity and catatoxic hormones. The book can provide useful information to scientists, doctors, students, and researchers.

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Information

Publisher
Butterworth-Heinemann
Year
2013
Print ISBN
9780407985100
eBook ISBN
9781483192215
Topic
Medicine
Subtopic
Clinical Medicine

Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Stress in Health and Disease
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Dedication
  6. FOREWORD
  7. PREFATORY REMARKS ON THE STYLE OF THIS BOOK
  8. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  9. CHAPTER I. HISTORY AND GENERAL OUTLINE OF THE STRESS CONCEPT
  10. CHAPTER II. STRESSORS AND CONDITIONING AGENTS
  11. CHAPTER III. CHARACTERISTIC MANIFESTATIONS OF STRESS
  12. CHAPTER IV. DISEASES OF ADAPTATION
  13. CHAPTER V. TREATMENT
  14. CHAPTER VI. THEORIES
  15. CHAPTER VII. VARIOUS OTHER RELATED TOPICS
  16. AUTHOR INDEX
  17. SUBJECT INDEX

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