The short-term stress response – Mother nature's mechanism for enhancing protection and performance under conditions of threat, challenge, and opportunity

Frontiers in Neuroendocrinology

Volumn 49, Issue , 2018, Pages 175-192

  Dhabhar, Firdaus S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

Amateur elite athletes; Armed forces special operations forces; Eustress distress; Infection autoimmune disease cancer; Performers entertainers; Psycho neuro endocrine immunology; Sleep; Stress optimization; Stress reduction; Wound healing

Indexed keywords

CHEMOKINE; CYTOKINE; STRESS HORMONE;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ANXIETY; BRAIN; CARDIOVASCULAR FUNCTION; COGNITION; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DENDRITIC CELL; HUMAN; IMMUNITY; INNATE IMMUNITY; LYMPHOCYTE; LYMPHOCYTE FUNCTION; MACROPHAGE; MENTAL STRESS; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM; NEUTROPHIL; NONHUMAN; PERFORMANCE; PHYSICAL PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTECTION; REVIEW; STRESS; SURGERY; SURVIVAL; THREAT; TRAINING; TUMOR IMMUNITY; VACCINATION; CHRONIC DISEASE; IMMUNOLOGY; METABOLISM;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; CHRONIC DISEASE; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, INNATE; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 85044724495     PISSN: 00913022     EISSN: 10956808     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yfrne.2018.03.004     Document Type: Review

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