Chronic psychosocial stress enhances vasopressin, but not corticotropin-releasing factor, in the external zone of the median eminence of male rats: relationship to subordinate status.
Chronic psychosocial stress enhances vasopressin, but not corticotropin-releasing factor, in the external zone of the median eminence of male rats: relationship to subordinate status.
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慢性心理社会压力会增强雄性大鼠正中隆起外部区域的加压素,但不会增强促肾上腺皮质激素释放因子:与从属地位的关系。
DOI:
10.1210/endo.131.2.1322285
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发表时间:
1992
期刊:
影响因子:
4.8
通讯作者:
F. Tilders
中科院分区:
文献类型:
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作者:
D. C. de Goeij;H. Dijkstra;F. Tilders
Male Wistar rats living in hierarchically structure male/female colonies were used to investigate the effects of chronic psychosocial stress on the hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal system. Colony-housed subordinates were compared to control rats housed in male-female pairs. Classical parameters of chronic stress (thymus involution, impaired somatic growth, and elevated resting plasma corticosterone level) were found in all subordinate rats. Changes in vasopressin (AVP) and CRF stored in the external zone of the median eminence (ZEME) were measured by quantitative immunocytochemistry. Chronic psychosocial stress for 19-28 days increased AVP immunostaining in the ZEME to 160-190% of that in pair-housed controls, whereas CRF immunostaining in the ZEME remained unchanged. Within colonies, subordinates differed in avoidance behavior and aggression received (subordinate status). This intracolony subordination rank was correlated with AVP in the ZEME (P less than 0.01). Although resting corticosterone was elevated in subordinate rats (P less than 0.01), the increase in AVP was not associated with detectable secretion of AVP and/or CRF from the ZEME, as measured after blockade of axonal transport. In control rats, interaction with a dominant male increased plasma ACTH and corticosterone levels and caused depletion of AVP, but not CRF, from the ZEME. Subordinates showed suppressed hypothalamic (AVP depletion), pituitary (plasma ACTH) and adrenal (plasma corticosterone) responses to interaction with the dominant male, which may reflect suppressive actions of elevated corticosterone on CRF neurons or suprahypothalamic centers.
影响因子:
4.8
作者:
Young,EA;Akil,H
通讯作者:
Akil,H