New Insights On Heart's 'Fight Or Flight' Response To Stress
Sunday, March 15, 2009 - 15:14
in Health & Medicine
Even for those without a heart condition, it's a peculiar feeling when your heart "races" in response to stress. That pacing change happens in part because of how the enzyme calcium/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II is called into action by the body's "fight or flight" stress response, researchers have found.