Endocrine Abstracts

Early life events can have short and long-term effects on neuroendocrine, autonomic, and behavioural responses to stress and appear to play an important role in the etiology of stress-related disorders. Glucocorticoids are thought to be key mediators of these brain-endocrine-immune connections. We investigated the effects of a short-term social isolation (4 h) of domestic piglets at different days of age (7, 21, 35) both on behavioural alterations in open-field tests and on mo...