Hellgren, C. 2013. Physiological Stress Reactivity in Late Pregnancy. Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. Digital Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala Dissertations from the Faculty of Medicine 887. 70 pp. Uppsala. ISBN 978-91-554-8636-5. During pregnancy, the basal activity is increased in both of our major stress response systems: the sympathetic nervous system and the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrena...

THE preparation from the adrenal gland of lipoid extracts which produced oestrous and progestational effects in the uterus of the immature rabbit was reported by Engelhart [1930]. These findings were confirmed by Callow & Parkes [1936], who showed that the active principles could be separated by the method of Allen & Meyer [1933]. They suggested, in view of the structure of the substances alrea...