Showing posts with label chronic stress. Show all posts
Showing posts with label chronic stress. Show all posts

Friday, January 15, 2010

Chronic Stress and Elevated Norepinephrine - Effects on the Heart

Summary: "enhanced MAO-A activity coupled with increased intramyocardial norepinephrine availability results in increased reactive oxygen species generation which can lead to cardiac dysfunction from chronic stress."


Increased Norepinephrine Breakdown Adverse for Heart. Mpdern Medicine. Retrieved January 14, 2009.

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http://www.citeulike.org/user/HEIRS/article/3728059