title: Post-stress recovery of pituitary-adrenal hormones and glucose, but not the response during exposure to the stressor, is a marker of stress intensity in highly stressful situations.
abstract: Acute immobilization in male rats elicited the same ACTH, corticosterone and glucose response as foot shock when measured immediately after stress. However, post-stress recovery of plasma ACTH, corticosterone and glucose levels were delayed in immobilized versus shocked rats. Similarly, stress-induced anorexia was much greater in the former animals. All these data suggest that post-stress speed of recovery of some physiological variables is positively related to stressor intensity and could be used to evaluate it.
authors.affiliation: Unitat de Fisiologia Animal, Departament de Biologia Cellular, de Fisiologia i d'Immunologia, Facultat de Ciències, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193 Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain.
authors.forename: Cristina
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Márquez
authors.forename: Xavier
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Belda
authors.forename: Antonio
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Armario
mesh_terms: D000324:Adrenocorticotropic Hormone / Q000097:blood*; D000818:Animals; D015415:Biomarkers; D001786:Blood Glucose; D003345:Corticosterone / Q000097:blood*; D004195:Disease Models, Animal; D004597:Electroshock; D007030:Hypothalamo-Hypophyseal System / Q000502:physiology; D008297:Male; D010913:Pituitary-Adrenal System / Q000502:physiology*; D011388:Prolactin / Q000097:blood; D051381:Rats; D017207:Rats, Sprague-Dawley; D012149:Restraint, Physical; D013312:Stress, Physiological / Q000097:blood* / Q000503:physiopathology
chemical_list: D015415:Biomarkers; D001786:Blood Glucose; D000324:Adrenocorticotropic Hormone; D011388:Prolactin; D003345:Corticosterone