Ebook: Stress in Health and Disease

Front Cover; Stress in Health and Disease; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Dedication; FOREWORD; PREFATORY REMARKS ON THE STYLE OF THIS BOOK; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; CHAPTER I. HISTORY AND GENERAL OUTLINE OF THE STRESS CONCEPT; HISTORY; GENERAL OUTLINE; CHAPTER II. STRESSORS AND CONDITIONING AGENTS; Trauma; Drugs; Hormones and Hormone-like Substances; Diet; Other Agents; Temperature Variations (including Frostbite); Sound; Ionizing Rays; Light Rays; Ultraviolet Rays; Vibration; Air Blasts; Compression, Decompression; Gravity; Electricity, Electroshock; Magnetism; Osmotic Pressure.;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; mo.