Good stress, bad stress and oxidative stress: Insights from anticipatory cortisol reactivity

Psychoneuroendocrinology

Volumn 38, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 1698-1708

  Aschbacher, Kirstin ^a,b   O'Donovan, Aoife ^a,c   Wolkowitz, Owen M ^a   Dhabhar, Firdaus S ^d   Su, Yali ^e   Epel, Elissa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Institute for Integrative Health   (United States)

^c VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e SilverCreek Technologies   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute stress; Biological aging; Chronic stress; Cortisol; DNA RNA damage; Eustress; Hypothalamic pituitary adrenal axis; Oxidative stress; Reactive oxygen species; Resilience

Indexed keywords

8 HYDROXYDEOXYGUANOSINE; 8 ISOPROSTAGLANDIN F2 ALPHA; CREATININE; HYDROCORTISONE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CAREGIVER BURDEN; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHRONIC STRESS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DEMENTIA; DNA DAMAGE; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; HYDROCORTISONE RELEASE; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; LIPID PEROXIDATION; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MENTAL STRESS; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PERCEPTION; POSTMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SALIVA LEVEL; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ACUTE STRESS; BIOLOGICAL AGING; CHRONIC STRESS; CORTISOL; DNA/RNA DAMAGE; EUSTRESS; HYPOTHALAMIC-PITUITARY-ADRENAL AXIS; OXIDATIVE STRESS; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES; RESILIENCE;

ACUTE DISEASE; AFFECT; AGED; ANTICIPATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; CAREGIVERS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHRONIC DISEASE; DEOXYGUANOSINE; DINOPROST; DNA DAMAGE; FEMALE; GUANOSINE; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; MIDDLE AGED; OXIDATIVE STRESS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESILIENCE, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SALIVA; SECRETORY RATE; SPOUSES; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84883656978     PISSN: 03064530     EISSN: 18733360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2013.02.004     Document Type: Article

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