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.

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