Relationship between Exercise Performance and Hormone in Blood in Exercised Horses
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Applied Biosciences and Bioengineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (17 October 2023) | Viewed by 200
Special Issue Editors
Interests: animals; geldings; thoroughbred
Interests: endocrinology; metabolism; exercise physiology; animal physiology; equine performance; transport animals
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Interests: endocrinology; metabolism; exercise physiology; stress; animal physiology; transport animals
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: animal biochemistry; metabolism; exercise physiology; animal physiology; equine athletic performance; serotoninergic system; transport animals
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Researches applied to the study of horse physiology, adaptive responses and welfare embrace different scientific areas. The adaptive changes maintain horse emotional, behavioral and functional homeostasis in challenging effects of environment or management producing stress. Exercise can be considered as a useful stress model to study the interplay between the different hormonal systems in stress conditions, and the studies to determine the amount of acute or chronic stress on individuals during competitive or not competitive exercise stress are of increasing interest in research. Stress conditions affect horse emotional and functional homeostasis as well as cognitive processes, through the interplay of functional and neuroendocrine systems. The response to stressors is dependent on collative factors’ influence, such as novelty, previous experience, and presence of conspecifics. Exercise/training, athletic performance, rehabilitation, transport, horse/human relationship induce system-wide alterations that require neural and endocrine mediation. For this special edition, original manuscripts covering all aspects of the link between the cognitive processes and the emotional and functional state during exercise performance, are invited. The focus is on the dependence of functional and neuroendocrine responses to stressors, on the understanding of the influence of physical or mental stressors and their collative factors, on the role of affective processes underpinning temperament and emotional reaction in horses. This knowledge may result of outmost importance in understanding how the hormone pattern changes in response to either physical or mental components of exercise stress and in determining welfare, functional and athletic performances, adaptive responses, discipline-specific performance and appropriate psychological state for competition and any horse utilization.
Prof. Dr. Adriana Ferlazzo
Prof. Dr. Esterina Fazio
Prof. Dr. Pietro Medica
Prof. Dr. Alida Ferlazzo
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- equine athletic performance
- equine assisted interventions
- equine behavior and welfare
- equine biochemistry
- equine physiology
- equine neuroendocrinology
