Exercise Endocrinology

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Katarina Borer
2nd Edition
2003
US Price: $85
288 pages
9780880115667

About the Author | Table of Contents

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

Audiences

Reference for exercise scientists, biochemists, exercise physiologists, and health professionals who use exercise in disease prevention and rehabilitation; text for undergraduate and graduate students in exercise science, exercise physiology, and biochemistry.