Gender-specific cold responses induce a similar body-cooling rate but different neuroendocrine and immune responses

Cryobiology

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 26-33

  Solianik, Rima ^a   Skurvydas, Albertas ^a   Vitkauskiene, Astra ^b   Brazaitis, Marius ^a  

^a LITHUANIAN SPORTS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

^b LITHUANIAN UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (Lithuania)

Author keywords

Acute cold stress; Cold response strategies; Thermoregulation

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; DOPAMINE; HYDROCORTISONE; INTERLEUKIN 6; NEOPTERIN; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; NORADRENALIN;

ADRENALIN BLOOD LEVEL; ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY TEMPERATURE; COLD STRESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; COOLING; DOPAMINE BLOOD LEVEL; ENDOCRINE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; IMMUNE RESPONSE; MALE; METABOLISM; MUSCLE TEMPERATURE; NEUROENDOCRINE SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RECTUM TEMPERATURE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SHIVERING; SKIN TEMPERATURE; STRESS; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; THERMOGENESIS; THERMOREGULATION; WATER IMMERSION; ADOLESCENT; BLOOD; COLD; COLD SHOCK RESPONSE; HEART RATE; IMMERSION; NEUROSECRETION; PHYSIOLOGY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BODY TEMPERATURE; BODY TEMPERATURE REGULATION; COLD TEMPERATURE; COLD-SHOCK RESPONSE; EPINEPHRINE; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; IMMERSION; MALE; NEOPTERIN; NEUROSECRETORY SYSTEMS; NOREPINEPHRINE; SEX FACTORS; SHIVERING; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84905915627     PISSN: 00112240     EISSN: 10902392     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cryobiol.2014.04.015     Document Type: Article

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