Relationship between Exercise Performance and Hormones in Blood of Exercised Horses
A special issue of Veterinary Sciences (ISSN 2306-7381). This special issue belongs to the section "Veterinary Education, Veterinary Communication and Animal Behavior".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 July 2024 | Viewed by 619
Special Issue Editors
Interests: animal physiology; equine athletic performance; horse neuroendocrinology; horse physiology; stress; exercise physiology; reproduction; transport animals
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: endocrinology; metabolism; exercise physiology; animal physiology; equine performance; transport animals
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
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,
Different research fields are applied to the study of horse physiology, adaptive responses and welfare. Exercise can be considered as a useful stress model to study the interplay between different hormonal systems in stress conditions. Exercise, athletic performance, rehabilitation, transport and horse/human relationships induce system-wide alterations that require neural and endocrine mediation. For this special edition, original manuscripts covering the link between cognitive processes and emotional and functional states during exercise performance are invited. The focus is on the dependence of functional and neuroendocrine responses to stressors, on understanding of the influence of physical or mental stressors and their collative factors and on the role of affective processes underpinning temperament and emotional reactions in horses. This knowledge is of utmost importance for understanding how hormone patterns change in response to either physical or mental components of stress and for determining welfare, functional and athletic performances, adaptive responses, discipline-specific performances and appropriate psychological states for competition and horse utilization.
Prof. Adriana Ferlazzo
Prof. 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
