Stress Hormone Responses to an Ultraendurance Race in the Cold

Wilderness and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 22-27

  Stuempfle, Kristin J ^a   Nindl, Bradley C ^b   Kamimori, Gary H ^c  

^a GETTYSBURG COLLEGE   (United States)

^b U S ARMY RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL MEDICINE   (United States)

^c WALTER REED ARMY INSTITUTE OF RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

ACTH; cold; cortisol; epinephrine; norepinephrine; ultraendurance race

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; CORTICOTROPIN; HYDROCORTISONE; NORADRENALIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BICYCLE; BLOOD; COLD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENDURANCE; FEMALE; HEMATOCRIT; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; RUNNING; SKIING; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; ADULT; BICYCLING; COLD TEMPERATURE; EPINEPHRINE; FEMALE; HEMATOCRIT; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOREPINEPHRINE; PHYSICAL ENDURANCE; RUNNING; SKIING; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; WEIGHT LOSS;

EID: 77950165786     PISSN: 10806032     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wem.2009.12.020     Document Type: Article

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