Endocrine Abstracts

Increasing evidence indicates chronic stress plays an important role in a variety of health problems such as the development of autoimmune disease, and the results from mice studies suggest that the central endocannabinoid (eCB) system regulates endocrine and neuronal responses to stress. However, it is unclear how the eCB system responds to chronic stress in healthy humans. A 520-day isolation-and-confinement study simulating an interplanetary spaceflight mission to Mars prov...