The protective role of exercise on stress system dysregulation and comorbidities

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1083, Issue , 2006, Pages 196-213

  Tsatsoulis, Agathocles ^a   Fountoulakis, Stelios ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Allostasis; Exercise; Insulin resistance; Metabolic syndrome; Physical activity; Stress

Indexed keywords

CATECHOLAMINE; GLUCOCORTICOID;

ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; ANXIETY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CATECHOLAMINE RELEASE; CHRONIC STRESS; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONFERENCE PAPER; CORTICOSTEROID RELEASE; DEPRESSION; DYSLIPIDEMIA; EMOTIONAL DISORDER; EMOTIONAL STRESS; ENDOTHELIAL DYSFUNCTION; EXERCISE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HYPERCORTISOLISM; HYPERINSULINEMIA; HYPERTENSION; IMMOBILIZATION; INSULIN RESISTANCE; INSULIN SENSITIVITY; JOB STRESS; METABOLIC DISORDER; MOOD DISORDER; MORBIDITY; NEUROENDOCRINE SYSTEM; OBESITY; WELLBEING;

EID: 33845649334     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1367.020     Document Type: Conference Paper

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