ea0094p158 | Adrenal and Cardiovascular | SFEBES2023
Gazarkova Tatana
, Plachka Katerina
, Vlckova Hana Kocova
, Svec Frantisek
, Novakova Lucie
Stress is increasingly pervasive in modern society and an unavoidable stimulus to the human organism. Stressors, whether of social or physical type, activate the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis, resulting in the upregulation of glucocorticoid levels and, in some cases, its de novo biosynthesis. Aside from HPA axis regulation, corticosteroids modulate the immune response to inflammation and affect whole-body metabolism. Despite numerous studies using traditional GC-MS...