Transient stress responses predicted by the internal viscosity model in elongational flow

1991 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 316-328 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. W. Manke ◽  
Michael C. Williams
2009 ◽  
Vol 5 (6) ◽  
pp. 746-748 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. A. MacDougall-Shackleton ◽  
L. Dindia ◽  
A. E. M. Newman ◽  
D. A. Potvin ◽  
K. A. Stewart ◽  
...  

The stress response—increases in circulating glucocorticoids following a stressor—is typically considered adaptive, but few studies address the fitness consequences of individual variation in stress response. Generally, due to negative consequences of prolonged elevation of glucocorticoids, animals should have a transient stress response just sufficient to cope with the stressor. In rodents, stress responsiveness is affected by early developmental experience, and hyper-responsiveness to stress is linked to morbidity and mortality. We assessed individual variation in stress responses in free-living song sparrows, Melospiza melodia , in relation to fitness-related measures including song and overwinter survival. Birds with greater increases in corticosterone 30 min following restraint stress were less likely to return to breed the following year. Stress responsiveness was also correlated with song complexity: males with fewer syllables in their song repertoires had greater stress reactivity. Our findings support the hypothesis that developmental stressors both impair song development and affect the adult stress response. Thus, individual variation in the stress response may relate to variation in fitness.


2001 ◽  
Vol 15 (06n07) ◽  
pp. 930-937 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. TANAKA ◽  
S. HASHIMOTO ◽  
T. TAKENOUCHI ◽  
I. SUGIMOTO ◽  
A. KUBONO ◽  
...  

The steady and transient stress responses were investigated from lower shear rates to higher shear rates at a given strength of the electric field, and the individual experimental conditions were reduced to Mason number ( M n). The electro-rheological response was found in the region with higher M n of the order of 10, and the transient response became faster as the shear rate increased. These results show that the effect of chance of collision among the polarized particles would play an important role even in the region.


2008 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 112-115 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephan Bongard ◽  
Volker Hodapp ◽  
Sonja Rohrmann

Abstract. Our unit investigates the relationship of emotional processes (experience, expression, and coping), their physiological correlates and possible health outcomes. We study domain specific anger expression behavior and associated cardio-vascular loads and found e.g. that particularly an open anger expression at work is associated with greater blood pressure. Furthermore, we demonstrated that women may be predisposed for the development of certain mental disorders because of their higher disgust sensitivity. We also pointed out that the suppression of negative emotions leads to increased physiological stress responses which results in a higher risk for cardiovascular diseases. We could show that relaxation as well as music activity like singing in a choir causes increases in the local immune parameter immunoglobuline A. Finally, we are investigating connections between migrants’ strategy of acculturation and health and found e.g. elevated cardiovascular stress responses in migrants when they where highly adapted to the German culture.


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