BIOCHEMICAL APPROACH TO STRESS PROBLEMS.
Abstract
Consideration is given to the meaning of, and variation in, stress and an attempt is made to arrive at an acceptable biomedical definition of stress. Attention is called to the mission, activities and responsibilities of the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery of the Department of the Navy, and emphasis is laid on the fact that most of these have to do with the physical and mental health of personnel under quite stressful conditions of environmental and/or operational origin. Many physical, physiological and psychological stresses are encountered in Navy and/or military service and give rise to unique problems which are the subjects of research in the Navy's biomedical laboratories. Responses to stress, regulated by physiological systems, may be studied as biochemical manifestations of the organism's reaction to changes in internal and external environment. In the consideration of disease as a form of stress, the role of the clinical chemist should be viewed as that of a biochemist rather than of a specialist isolated in the clinical laboratory. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Sep 01, 1968
- Accession Number
- AD0677278
Entities
People
- Julius Sendroy Jr.
Organizations
- Naval Medical Research Center