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Author: Katarina T. Borer
Published: May 2003
Publisher: Human Kinetics Publishers
ISBN: 0880115661
Hardcover Book
Number of Pages: 288

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Exercise Endocrinology

Exercise Endocrinology is the only comprehensive textbook dealing with the endocrine physiology of exercise. The book serves both as a valuable introduction to endocrinology and as an integrative overview of exercise endocrinology. The text will help you understand the basics of endocrinology while giving you the most current information on endocrine physiology research. What makes Exercise Endocrinology unique is its organization by functional responses of hormones rather than by their organs and tissue origins. In addition, the book integrates autonomic physiology with endocrinology to present the most thorough review available of the autonomic nervous system’s involvement in exercise. Written by a highly acclaimed exercise scientist and endocrinology researcher, Exercise Endocrinology is well organized and includes references, illustrations, and tables that will help you do the following: · Compare hormone sources and effects · Categorize hormones, receptors, organ sources, and actions · Understand hormone functions (with specific consideration for fluid regulation, immunology, fuel use, stress responses, biological rhythms, and physical performance) · Recognize hormone agonists and antagonists · Be aware of the influence of exercise and hormones on human health The text devotes substantial attention to the chemical mediation of hypertension, diabetes, hyperlipidemia, and obesity. It also combines the study of growth and energy regulation to clarify how chemical mediators cause partitioning of energy down these separate pathways. The practical value of Exercise Endocrinology will appeal to students and exercise scientists, and the book will also be a valuable reference for health professionals who use exercise in disease prevention and rehabilitation. About the Author Katarina Borer, PhD, is a professor of movement science and researcher at the University of Michigan. She studied the neuroendocrine controls of growth in an animal model from 1974 to 1994, and she developed and validated radioimmuoassays for hamster growth hormone and prolactin in the 1980s. Since 1995, Borer has been studying the effects of training intensity on hormonal and cardiovascular adaptations in postmenopausal women. Dr. Borer is a 2002 member of the NIA Special Emphasis Panel (Older Americans Independence Centers). In 1990, she was the recipient of the Fulbright Hayes Research Scholarship to Sweden. From 1993 to 1995, she was a member of the Council for International Exchange of Scholars, Area Committee for Scandinavia. She also is on the editorial board of Kinesiology, the international journal of fundamental and applied kinesiology.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Introduction to Endocrinology

Hormone Structure and Synthesis

Hormone Maturation

Hormone Release

Hormone Transport

Hormone Degradation

Chapter 2. Role of the autonomic nervous system in exercise

Characteristics of the autonomic nervous system

Integrative autonomic brain centers

Autonomic control of endocrine secretion

Integrative autonomic functions

Summary

Chapter 3. Receptors and chemical message transduction in exercise

Hormone and Receptor Interactions

Chemical messenger receptors

Chemical message transduction

Transduction pathways that influence body function during exercise

Methods of hormone measurement

Chapter 4. Regulation of body fluids during exercise

Redistribution of body fluids during dehydration

Hormonal regulation of cellular hydration

Endocrine regulation of plasma volume

Thirst and sodium hunger

Strategies of fluid management

Chapter 5. Exercise as an emergency and a stressor

Endocrine system support of intense exercise

Stress messengers in support of circulation during intense exercise

Endocrine control of hemostasis during acute exercise

Endocrine mediation of analgesia during intense exercise

Endocrine mediation of tissue repair following intense exercise

SA and endocrine mediation of immune-defense responses during intense

exercise

Endocrine responses to non-specific stress of exercise

Hypertension and its control through exercise

Chapter 6. Hormonal regulation of fuel use in exercise

Hormonal Influence of Metabolism

Metabolism during exercise and recovery from exercise

Nutritional modulation of metabolism

Abnormal Metabolism

Chapter 7. Exercise and the nutrient partitioning between structure and

storage

Relationship of growth and energy regulation

Energy partitioning for statural growth

Energy partitioning for hypertrophic growth

Energy partitioning for energy balance and reparative growth

Chapter 8. Reproductive hormones and exercise

Development of gender differences and their role in physical performance The hypothalamo-pituitary-gonadal axis in the control of fertility. Effects of Gender differences on physical performance.

Phases of menstrual cycle and physical performance.

Administration of sex steroids to increase muscle strength and power.

Effect of exercise on sex hormone secretion.

Effects of exercise on fertility and onset of menarche.

Sex hormones, physical activity, and health

Chapter 9. Endocrinology of biological rhythms and exercise Biological rhythms and the internal body clock. Characteristics of the biological clock.

Reciprocal interactions between exercise and biological rhythms Health and biological rhythms Exercise Influence on the biological clock mechanism.

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