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Title: Catecholamines and the effects of exercise, training and gender
Authors: Zouhal, Hassane
Jacob, Christophe 
Delamarche, Paul
Delamarche, Arlette Gratas
Affiliations: Department of Physical Education 
Keywords: Endurance Training
Untrained Subject
Noradrenaline Concentration
Catecholamine Concentration
Wingate test
Issue Date: 2008
Part of: Journal of sports medicine
Volume: 38
Issue: 5
Start page: 401
End page: 423
Abstract: 
Stress hormones, adrenaline (epinephrine) and noradrenaline (norepinephrine), are responsible for many adaptations both at rest and during exercise. Since their discovery, thousands of studies have focused on these two catecholamines and their importance in many adaptive processes to different stressors such as exercise, hypoglycaemia, hypoxia and heat exposure, and these studies are now well acknowledged. In fact, since adrenaline and noradrenaline are the main hormones whose concentrations increase markedly during exercise, many researchers have worked on the effect of exercise on these amines and reported 1.5 to >20 times basal concentrations depending on exercise characteristics (e.g. duration and intensity). Similarly, several studies have shown that adrenaline and noradrenaline are involved in cardiovascular and respiratory adjustments and in substrate mobilization and utilization. Thus, many studies have focused on physical training and gender effects on catecholamine response to exercise in an effort to verify if significant differences in catecholamine responses to exercise could be partly responsible for the different performances observed between trained and untrained subjects and/or men and women. In fact, previous studies conducted in men have used different types of exercise to compare trained and untrained subjects in response to exercise at the same absolute or relative intensity. Their results were conflicting for a while. As research progressed, parameters such as age, nutritional and emotional state have been found to influence catecholamine concentrations. As a result, most of the recent studies have taken into account all these parameters. Those studies also used very well trained subjects and/or more intense exercise, which is known to have a greater effect on catecholamine response so that differences between trained and untrained subjects are more likely to appear. Most findings then reported a higher adrenaline response to exercise in end.
URI: https://scholarhub.balamand.edu.lb/handle/uob/1717
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Type: Journal Article
Appears in Collections:Department of Physical Education

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