Teaching the interrelationship between stress, emotions, and cardiovascular risk using a classic paper by Walter Cannon

American Journal of Physiology - Advances in Physiology Education

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 18-22

  Gwirtz, Patricia A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Adrenal; Epinephrine

Indexed keywords

EID: 40749092824     PISSN: 10434046     EISSN: 15221229     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/advan.00051.2007     Document Type: Article

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