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This book examines the ways hormones and messengers of the autonomic nervous system affect human biology before, during and after exercise. It describes the way chemical messengers constantly regulate the body's internal environment, including responses to stress of acute exercise, and facilitate long-term functional and structural adjustments as exercise training programmes create mechanical strains and bioenergetic drain. Discussion topics are clearly organised by function rather than by a focus on individual messenger systems to explain their role. The first three chapters deal with general concepts regarding chemical mediators in exercise, their interaction with the autonomic nervous system, and the mechanisms of hormone action. The remaining chapters address specific functional involvements of chemical messengers that affect exercise or derive from it.

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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.

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