Salivary amylase as a marker of increasing physiological stress during a 5-mile treadmill road march

2002 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ava J. Walker ◽  
Heidi L. Bolgren ◽  
Kathryn G. Nichols ◽  
Arthur S. Leon ◽  
Peter A. Hancock
Keyword(s):  
Physiological Stress ◽  
Salivary Amylase

Salivary Amylase as a Field-Practical Measure of Stress

1997 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 894-894
Author(s):  
Linda L. Mullins ◽  
Linda T. Fatkin ◽  
Robert Chatterton
Keyword(s):  
Collaborative Research ◽  
Physiological Stress ◽  
Research Effort ◽  
Salivary Amylase ◽  
Army Research Laboratory ◽  
Color Changes ◽  
Non Invasive ◽  
Northwestern University ◽  
Invasive Method ◽  
Practical Measure

This demonstration describes a non-invasive method of quantitatively measuring physiological stress in a field or laboratory setting. The method uses salivary amylase, collected using a sponge. Measurement of amylase in saliva involves chemical color changes according to standard photometric procedures developed through a collaborative research effort between Northwestern University and the Army Research Laboratory (Chatterton, Vogelsong, Lu, Ellman, & Hudgens, 1996.

Emotions and health: The impact of emotions, emotions regulation, music, and acculturation on health

2008 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 112-115 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephan Bongard ◽  
Volker Hodapp ◽  
Sonja Rohrmann
Keyword(s):  
Stress Responses ◽  
Physiological Stress ◽  
Anger Expression ◽  
Domain Specific ◽  
Cardiovascular Stress ◽  
Expression Behavior ◽  
Cardio Vascular ◽  
And Coping ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Impact

Abstract. Our unit investigates the relationship of emotional processes (experience, expression, and coping), their physiological correlates and possible health outcomes. We study domain specific anger expression behavior and associated cardio-vascular loads and found e.g. that particularly an open anger expression at work is associated with greater blood pressure. Furthermore, we demonstrated that women may be predisposed for the development of certain mental disorders because of their higher disgust sensitivity. We also pointed out that the suppression of negative emotions leads to increased physiological stress responses which results in a higher risk for cardiovascular diseases. We could show that relaxation as well as music activity like singing in a choir causes increases in the local immune parameter immunoglobuline A. Finally, we are investigating connections between migrants’ strategy of acculturation and health and found e.g. elevated cardiovascular stress responses in migrants when they where highly adapted to the German culture.

Attachment and physiological stress patterns in newly married couples

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paula R. Pietromonaco ◽  
Casey J. DeBuse ◽  
Sally I. Powers
Keyword(s):  
Physiological Stress ◽  
Married Couples ◽  
Newly Married ◽  
Stress Patterns

Chaperonin as the normal controls and pathological anti-stress response in the human reproductive system

2016 ◽  
pp. 126-129
Author(s):  
M. Makarenko ◽  
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D. Hovsyeyev ◽  
L. Sydoryk ◽  
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...  
Keyword(s):  
Reproductive System ◽  
Stress Proteins ◽  
Physiological Stress ◽  
Protein Complexes ◽  
Reproductive Function ◽  
Intercellular Signaling ◽  
Toll Like Receptors ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Protein Functions ◽  
And Function

Different kinds of physiological stress cause mass changes in the cells, including the changes in the structure and function of the protein complexes and in separate molecules. The protein functions is determined by its folding (the spatial conclusion), which depends on the functioning of proteins of thermal shock- molecular chaperons (HSPs) or depends on the stress proteins, that are high-conservative; specialized proteins that are responsible for the correct proteinaceous folding. The family of the molecular chaperones/ chaperonins/ Hsp60 has a special place due to the its unique properties of activating the signaling cascades through the system of Toll-like receptors; it also stimulates the cells to produce anti- inflammatory cytokines, defensins, molecules of cell adhesion and the molecules of MHC; it functions as the intercellular signaling molecule. The pathological role of Hsp60 is established in a wide range of illnesses, from diabetes to atherosclerosis, where Hsp60 takes part in the regulation of both apoptosis and the autoimmune processes. The presence of the HSPs was found in different tissues that are related to the reproductive system. Key words: molecular chaperons (HSPs), Toll-like receptors, reproductive function, natural auto antibody.

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