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Psychosomatic Medicine 35:406-414 (1973)
© 1973 American Psychosomatic Society

Plasma Cortisol and Norepinephrine Responses in Anticipation of Muscular Exercise

JOHN W. MASON MD1, L. HOWARD HARTLEY MD1, THEODORE A. KOTCHEN MAJOR MC1, EDWARD H. MOUGEY MS1, PERCY T. RICKETTS BS1, and LEEROY G. JONES COLONEL MC1

1 Department of Neuroendocrinology, Division of Neuropsychiatry, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Washington, DC. 20012 and Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine, Natick, Massachusetts 01760

Address reprint requests to: Dr. John W. Mason, MD, Department of Neuroendocrinology, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Washington, DC. 20012.

Strikingly consistent individual responses and significant mean elevations of plasma cortisol levels (5 to 9 µ g%) and plasma norepinephrine levels (2.0 to 2.5 µ g/1) were observed during a 20-min interval prior to onset of the first exhausting exercise (70% max VO2) session in eight normal young men. No detectable plasma epinephrine response was observed. Such consistent anticipatory psychoendocrine responses were not found prior to subsequent exercise sessions involving milder degrees of muscular exercise. Psychoendocrine reactions to intravenous catheterization were also observed in some individual subjects, suggesting the need for precautions to minimize the possible effects of this variable in exercise experiments. Some implications of this study for psychoendocrine research are also discussed.

Submitted on September 25, 1972
Revised on February 23, 1973




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