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Adrenaline (Hardcover)
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Adrenaline (Hardcover)
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Inducing highs of excitement, anger, and terror, adrenaline fuels
the extremes of human experience. A rush empowers superhuman feats
in emergencies. Risk-taking junkies seek to replicate this feeling
in dangerous recreations. And a surge may literally scare us to
death. Adrenaline brings us up to speed on the fascinating molecule
that drives some of our most potent experiences. Adrenaline was
discovered in 1894 and quickly made its way out of the lab into
clinics around the world. In this engrossing account, Brian Hoffman
examines adrenaline in all its capacities, from a vital regulator
of physiological functions to the subject of Nobel Prize-winning
breakthroughs. Because its biochemical pathways are prototypical,
adrenaline has had widespread application in hormone research
leading to the development of powerful new drugs. Hoffman
introduces the scientists to whom we owe our understanding, tracing
the paths of their discoveries and aspirations and allowing us to
appreciate the crucial role adrenaline has played in pushing modern
medicine forward. Hoffman also investigates the vivid, at times
lurid, place adrenaline occupies in the popular imagination, where
accounts of its life-giving and lethal properties often leave the
realm of fact. Famous as the catalyst of the "fight or flight"
response, adrenaline has also received forensic attention as a
perfect poison, untraceable in the bloodstream-and rumors persist
of its power to revive the dead. True to the spirit of its topic,
Adrenaline is a stimulating journey that reveals the truth behind
adrenaline's scientific importance and enduring popular appeal.
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