You’re probably already heard of cortisol. Otherwise known as the stress hormone, it plays a crucial role in the body’s stress response, and can lead to anxiety, high blood pressure, facial puffiness ...

Catecholamines are hormones produced by the adrenal glands, which sit on top of the kidneys. Dopamine, epinephrine (adrenaline), and norepinephrine are the main catecholamines. Each of these hormones ...

Figure 1: Release of catecholamines from phagocytes and the presence of catecholamine-producing enzymes in phagocytes. Figure 3: The α 2-adrenoceptor mediates the severity of experimental acute lung ...

Over the past few years, the big buzzword in exercise circles has been "high-intensity interval training" (HIIT, or some variation on that general theme). Study after study has shown that really ...

FEW treatments in medicine are based on more tenuous evidence than that used to justify paralysis of the adrenergic nervous system in the contemporary clinical management of "shock." To a large degree ...

Objectives—To evaluate coach drivers' work stress during work and in the course of recovery from work by measurement of urinary catecholamines and cortisol. Methods—The urinary excretion rate of ...

ADRENERGIC tissue appears at an early stage in the development of the embryo 1 and, in the adult animal, this tissue is the primary source of the catecholamines 2. It would be reasonable to inquire ...

Catecholamine urine testing (CATU) is used to diagnose certain diseases that increase catecholamine production. The test is often combined with a catecholamine blood test. Levels can fluctuate, so ...

It was the early 2000s, and I was in San Francisco for a conference. Earlier in the day, a panel presentation I had organized and chaired, which included a sitting member of Congress, had gone off ...

Your body is made up of many different systems working together. One of those is the endocrine system, the system in your body that is responsible for hormone production and release. The adrenal ...

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