Endocrine Abstracts

Stressful events affect numerous physiological processes including central nervous system and endocrine responses. Repeated stress alters basic mechanisms for the maintenance of hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenocortical (HPA) homeostasis. The purpose of the present study was to determine whether, and to what extent prior repeated restraint or social crowding stress during 3 days affects the HPA response to an acute short-lasting restraint stress. Male Wistar rats were restrained 2...