To examine hormonal response patterns to various stresses, urinary excretion of catecholamines and corticosterone was measured in spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR) and Wistar-Kyoto normotensive rats (WKY) under the following conditions: immobilization, restriction to a small space, introduction of new rats, and noise exposure. In WKY rats, immobilization caused a marked increase in urinary ...

This study was undertaken to determine the influences of various doses of peppermint oil on the hepatic en-zymes, alanine transaminase, apartate tranaminase, alkaline phosphotase and gamma glutamyl transferase and the level of malondialdehyde in the serum of mice with and without immobility stress. The mice exposed to drink water, 0.9, 27 and 60 mg/kg peppermint oil from the days 1 to 5 for a p...

We recently reported that immobilization stress increased colonic motility, mucin, and prostaglandin E2(PGE2) release and mucosal mast cell degranulation in rat colon [ Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 93: 12611-12615, 1996; Am. J. Physiol. 271 ( Gastrointest. Liver Physiol. 34): G884-G892, 1996]. To directly assess the contribution of mast cells, we compared colonic responses to stress in mast cell-...

Dietary supplements are widely used to manage stress and related consequences. However, the exact pathological mechanism and cellular cascades involved in the action of these supplements are not properly understood so far. Therefore, the present study has been designed to explore the neuroprotective mechanism of rutin against immobilization stress-induced anxiety-like behavioural and oxidative ...

Chronic stress affects brain areas involved in learning and emotional responses. These alterations have been related with the development of cognitive deficits in major depression. Moreover, stress induces deleterious actions on the epithalamic pineal organ, a gland involved in a wide range of physiological functions. The aim of this study was to investigate whether the stress effects on the pi...

The serotoninergic system and the 5-HT1A receptors have been involved in the brain response to acute stress. The aim of our study was evaluate the role of the 5-HT1A receptors in serotoninergic cells of rostral and caudal raphe nuclei under acute immobilization in rats. Double immunocytochemical staining of 5-hydroxy-tryptamine and c-Fos protein and stereology techniques were used to study the ...

Using immunohistochemistry to reveal the Fos protein (a marker of neuronal activation), the present experiments examined whether there were differences in the responses of the paraventricular nucleus (PVN), hippocampus, and amygdala of pregnant rats exposed to three types of stressors (restraint, immobilization, and communication-box stress), all having inherently different severities, at three...

BACKGROUND Chronic stress has been reported to increase basal pain sensitivity and/or exacerbate existing persistent pain. However, most surgical patients have normal physiological and psychological health status such as normal pain perception before surgery although they do experience short-term stress during pre- and post-operative periods. Whether or not this short-term stress affects persis...