
Stress: Physiology, Biochemistry, and Pathology
Handbook of Stress Series, Volume 3
- 1st Edition - January 18, 2019
- Editor: George Fink
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 3 1 4 6 - 6
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 3 1 4 7 - 3
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- Chapters offer impressive scope, with topics addressing stress-related or induced physiology, biochemistry, and pathology
- Articles carefully selected by eminent stress researchers and prepared by contributors representing outstanding scholarship in the field, with each chapter fully vetted for reliable expert knowledge
- Richly illustrated with explanatory figures and tables
- Each chapter has a boxed “Key points” call out section
- The volume is fully indexed
- All chapters are electronically available via ScienceDirect
- Affordably priced, self-contained volume for readers specifically interested in the physiology, biochemistry and pathology of stress, avoiding the need to purchase the whole Handbook series
1. Autonomic Nervous System
2. Corticotropin releasing factor and the urocortins
3. Pro-opiomelanocortin
4. Arousal
5. Brain Regions involved in stress
6. Cerebral Metabolism, Brain Imaging and the stress response
7. Acute Stress Response: Experimental (including startle reflex)
8. Restraint Stress
9. Resilience
10. Stress-Hyporesponsive Period
11. Effects of Extreme High and Low Pressure
12. Avoidance
13. Stress and the Blood-Brain Barrier
14. Multi Drug Resistance P Glycoprotein and other Transporters
15. Glucose Transport, effects of glucocorticoids and adrenaline
16. Hippocampus and hippocampal neurons
17. Memory and Stress
18. Neurogenesis (including neural stem cells)
19. Glia or Neuroglia
20. Excitatory Amino Acids
21. Calcium-Dependent Neurotoxicity
22. GABA (Gamma Aminobutyric Acid) and stress
23. Dopamine, Central
24. Serotonin in Stress
25. Pheromones and stress
26. Instinct Theory
27. Drosophila Studies
28. Proteases in Prokaryotes and Eukaryotic Cell Organelles
29. Febrile Response
30. Thermal Stress
31. Chaperone Proteins and Chaperonopathies
32. Proteosome and autophagy
33. Oxidative Stress
34. Control of Food Intake and Stress
35. Gender differences in stress response
- Edition: 1
- Published: January 18, 2019
- Language: English
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