Possible Role of the Pituitary/Adrenocortical Axis in Aggressive Behaviour
Possible Role of the Pituitary/Adrenocortical Axis in Aggressive Behaviour
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垂体/肾上腺皮质轴在攻击行为中的可能作用
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P. Brain
Cherkin和Meinecke最近发现，通过让先前隔离的雄性兔子成对地从巴比妥酸盐麻醉中恢复，可以抑制它们的攻击行为数周，这提出了一个关于垂体/肾上腺皮质轴成分对行为反应的作用的有趣问题。众所周知，大多数形式的麻醉都是“应激性的”，因为它们会导致肾上腺皮质的激活，因此存在这样的可能性，即诸如Gherkin和Meinecke的发现是ACTH变化的结果。
THE recent finding by Cherkin and Meinecke1that aggressive behaviour in previously isolated male rabbits could be suppressed for some weeks by allowing them to recover in pairs from barbiturate anaesthesia, raises an interesting question concerning the action of components of the pituitary/adreno-cortical axis on behavioural responses. It is well established that most forms of anaesthesia are “stressful” in that they result in activation of the adrenal cortex, and the possibility thus exists that findings such as those by Gherkin and Meinecke are a consequence of changes in ACTH.