Abstract

Physiological mechanisms involved in the generation of the stress reaction were the topic of great number of research and review papers published in the 20th Century and in the recent period. Nonetheless, mostly separate specific aspects of this problem have been discussed in a great majority of the respective communications. In the proposed review, we tried to fill this "gap" and to concentrate our attention on generalization and systematization of the existing information related to different aspects of the problem of stress mechanisms.