Plasticity of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis induced by exposure to chronic stress

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
J Tasker
2012 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 199-207 ◽  
Author(s):  
Femke Rutters ◽  
Susanne La Fleur ◽  
Sofie Lemmens ◽  
Jurriaan Born ◽  
Mieke Martens ◽  
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2016 ◽  
Vol 157 (6) ◽  
pp. 2346-2355 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alier J. Franco ◽  
Chun Chen ◽  
Tyler Scullen ◽  
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Ahmed A. Salahudeen ◽  
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2006 ◽  
Vol 147 (4) ◽  
pp. 1664-1674 ◽  
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Rudy Bellani ◽  
Ilia N. Karatsoreos ◽  
Nara Chhua ◽  
Mary Vernov ◽  
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Both the magnitude and the duration of the hormonal stress response change dramatically during neonatal development and aging as well as with prior experience with a stressor. However, surprisingly little is known with regard to how pubertal maturation and experience with stress interact to affect hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis responsiveness. Because adolescence is a period of neurodevelopmental vulnerabilities and opportunities that may be especially sensitive to stress, it is imperative to more fully understand these interactions. Thus, we examined hormonal and neural responses in prepubertal (28 d of age) and adult (77 d of age) male rats after exposure to acute (30 min) or more chronic (30 min/d for 7 d) restraint stress. We report here that after acute stress, prepubertal males exhibited a significantly prolonged hormonal stress response (e.g. ACTH and total and free corticosterone) compared with adults. In contrast, after chronic stress, prepubertal males exhibited a higher response immediately after the stressor, but a faster return to baseline, compared with adults. Additionally, we demonstrate that this differential stress reactivity is associated with differential neuronal activation in the paraventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus, as measured by FOS immunohistochemistry. Using triple-label immunofluorescence histochemistry, we found that a larger proportion of CRH, but not arginine vasopressin, cells are activated in the arginine vasopressin in response to both acute and chronic stress in prepubertal animals compared with adults. These data indicate that experience-dependent plasticity of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal neuroendocrine axis is significantly influenced by pubertal maturation.


2008 ◽  
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pp. 349-359 ◽  
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Jun Chen ◽  
Sharla Young ◽  
Sivan Subburaju ◽  
Jack Sheppard ◽  
Alexander Kiss ◽  
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