Stress in Health and Disease

• Author(s): Hans Selye,
• Publisher: Butterworths
• Pages: 1256
• ISBN_10: 0407985107
  ISBN_13: 9780407985100
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Medical / General , Medical / Diseases , Medical / Pathology , Medical / Pathophysiology , Medical / Physiology ,

Description:... 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; morpho ...