Stress in Health and Disease

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.

Foreword Purpose and ScopePrefatory Remarks on the Style of this Book General Structure References Critique and Personal Observations Reviews Our Earlier Stress Monographs General Popular Foreign Languages How to Use This Book Glossary Stress TestsI. History and General Outline of the Stress Concept History Prescientific Intuitive Feelings Foreshadowing the Existence of Stress Beginnings of a Scientific Analysis The General Adaptation Syndrome (G.A.S.) General Outline Definition and Terminology of Biologic Stress Principal Pathways Mediating the Response to a Stressor Conditioning Degrees of Specificity, Relationship between the G.A.S and L.A.S Cross Resistance and Treatment with Stressors or Stress Hormones The Diseases of Adaptation or Stress Diseases Syntoxic and Catatoxic Responses The Concept of Heterostasis Behavioral ImplicationsII. Stressors and Conditioning Agents Trauma Generalities - ACTH and Corticoids - Catecholamines (EP, NEP) - STH - Insulin - Sex Hormones - Other Hormones - Histamine and 5-HT - Enzymes - Other Metabolites - Other Targets + Age + Anesthesia + Temperature + Season + Diet + Genetics Drugs AMP, ADP, ATP Alloxan Aminoglutethimide Amphenone Anesthetics and Analgesics Antiadrenergics Antibiotics Anticholinergics Antihistamines Asiaticoside Benzol Cannabis Chlorpromazine CNS Stimulants Colchicine Cysteamine DDD DDT DNA, RNA Dibenzyline Diphenylhydantoin DMSO DOPA Electrolytes, Water, Osmotic Pressure Ethanol Ethionine a-Ethyltryptamine, a-Methyltryptamine Formaldehyde Glucose 6-Hydroxydopamine Insecticides Isethionate MAO Inhibitors Meprobamate Methadone Methamphetamine Metrazol Metyrapone (Metopirone) Morphine a-MT Mustards Narcotics and Other Psychotropic Drugs Nialamide Nicotine Nicotinic Acid Nitrous Oxide PCPA Pimozide Poly chlorinated Biphenyls Psychotropic Drugs Reserpine Ricin Salicylates Tranquilizers Vitamins Various Drugs or Drug Combinations Not Previously Mentioned Hormones and Hormone-like Substances Catecholamines Corticoids Glucagon Gonadotropic and Gonadal Hormones Histamine and 5-HT Insulin Pineal Hormones Renin, Angiotensin STH Thymus Hormones Thyroid Hormones Vasopressin.