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A LONG-TERM INCREASE IN BASAL LEVELS OF CORTICOSTERONE AND A DECREASE IN CORTICOSTEROID-BINDING GLOBULIN AFTER ACUTE STRESSOR EXPOSURE Journal Article
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A PERMISSIVE ROLE OF CORTICOSTERONE IN AN OPIOID FORM OF STRESS-INDUCED ANALGESIA - BLOCKADE OF OPIATE ANALGESIA IS NOT DUE TO STRESS-INDUCED HORMONE-RELEASE Journal Article
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A Single Bout of Fasting (24 h) Reduces Basal Cytokine Expression and Minimally Impacts the Sterile Inflammatory Response in the White Adipose Tissue of Normal Weight F344 Rats Journal Article
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A detailed characterization of loud noise stress: Intensity analysis of hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenocortical axis and brain activation Journal Article
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A new function of the leptin receptor: mediation of the recovery from lipopolysaccharide-induced hypothermia Journal Article
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A selective role for corticosterone in contextual-fear conditioning Journal Article
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ADAPTATION OF THE HYPOTHALAMIC-PITUITARY-ADRENAL AXIS TO CHRONIC ETHANOL STRESS Journal Article
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ADRENAL-STEROID RECEPTOR ACTIVATION IN RAT-BRAIN AND PITUITARY FOLLOWING DEXAMETHASONE - IMPLICATIONS FOR THE DEXAMETHASONE SUPPRESSION TEST Journal Article
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ADRENAL-STEROID TYPE-I AND TYPE-II RECEPTOR-BINDING - ESTIMATES OF INVIVO RECEPTOR NUMBER, OCCUPANCY, AND ACTIVATION WITH VARYING LEVEL OF STEROID Journal Article
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Accessory and main olfactory systems influences on predator odor-induced behavioral and endocrine stress responses in rats Journal Article
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Activation of 5-HT1A receptors in the rat dorsomedial hypothalamus inhibits stress-induced activation of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis Journal Article
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Acute daily psychological stress causes increased atrophic gene expression and myostatin-dependent muscle atrophy Journal Article
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Acute episodes of predator exposure in conjunction with chronic social instability as an animal model of post-traumatic stress disorder Journal Article
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Acute exposure to a novel stressor further reduces the habituated corticosterone response to restraint in rats. Journal Article
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Acute glucocorticoid pretreatment suppresses stress-induced hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis hormone secretion and expression of corticotropin-releasing hormone hnRNA but does not affect c-fos mRNA or fos protein expression in the paraventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus Journal Article
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Acute predator stress impairs the consolidation and retrieval of hippocampus-dependent memory in male and female rats Journal Article
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Adaptation to prolonged or repeated stress - Comparison between rat strains showing intrinsic differences in reactivity to acute stress Journal Article
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Adolescent caffeine consumption increases adulthood anxiety-related behavior and modifies neuroendocrine signaling Journal Article
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Adrenal-dependent and -independent stress-induced Per1 mRNA in hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus and prefrontal cortex of male and female rats Journal Article
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Altered Entrainment to the Day/Night Cycle Attenuates the Daily Rise in Circulating Corticosterone in the Mouse Journal Article
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Amphetamine-induced behavior, dopamine release, and c-fos mRNA expression:: Modulation by environmental novelty Journal Article
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An experimental analysis of the heritability of variation in glucocorticoid concentrations in a wild avian population Journal Article
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An unexpected increase in restraint duration alters the expression of stress response habituation Journal Article
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Anxiety-like behaviors produced by acute fluoxetine administration in male Fischer 344 rats are prevented by prior exercise Journal Article
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Association of high-fat diet with neuroinflammation, anxiety-like defensive behavioral responses, and altered thermoregulatory responses in male rats Journal Article
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Auditory cortex lesions do not disrupt habituation of HPA axis responses to repeated noise stress Journal Article
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BLOCKADE OF THE HYPOTHALAMIC-PITUITARY-ADRENAL RESPONSE TO STRESS BY INTRAVENTRICULAR-INJECTION OF DEXAMETHASONE - A METHOD FOR STUDYING THE STRESS-INDUCED PERIPHERAL EFFECTS OF GLUCOCORTICOIDS Journal Article
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Bacterial infection early in life protects against stressor-induced depressive-like symptoms in adult rats Journal Article
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CANNABINOID RECEPTOR TYPE 1 ANTAGONISM SIGNIFICANTLY MODULATES BASAL AND LOUD NOISE INDUCED NEURAL AND HYPOTHALAMIC-PITUITARY-ADRENAL AXIS RESPONSES IN MALE SPRAGUE-DAWLEY RATS Journal Article
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CHANGES AT MULTIPLE LEVELS OF THE HYPOTHALAMOPITUITARY ADRENAL AXIS FOLLOWING REPEATED ELECTRICALLY INDUCED SEIZURES Journal Article
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CORTICOSTERONE REGULATION OF TYPE-I AND TYPE-II ADRENAL-STEROID RECEPTORS IN BRAIN, PITUITARY, AND IMMUNE TISSUE Journal Article
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Cat exposure induces both intra- and extracellular Hsp72: the role of adrenal hormones Journal Article
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Chronic Activation of Corticotropin-Releasing Factor Type 2 Receptors Reveals a Key Role for 5-HT1A Receptor Responsiveness in Mediating Behavioral and Serotonergic Responses to Stressful Challenge Journal Article
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Chronic anthropogenic noise disrupts glucocorticoid signaling and has multiple effects on fitness in an avian community Journal Article
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Chronic corticosterone treatment elicits dose-dependent changes in mouse brain alpha-bungarotoxin binding Journal Article
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Chronic non-invasive corticosterone administration abolishes the diurnal pattern of tph2 expression Journal Article
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Chronic social stress produces reductions in available splenic type II corticosteroid receptor binding and plasma corticosteroid binding globulin levels Journal Article
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Chronic stress and captivity alter the cloacal microbiome of a wild songbird Journal Article
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Chronic voluntary wheel running facilitates corticosterone response habituation to repeated audiogenic stress exposure in male rats Journal Article
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Circulating cytokines and endotoxin are not necessary for the activation of the sickness or corticosterone response produced by peripheral E-coli challenge Journal Article
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Coordination between Prefrontal Cortex Clock Gene Expression and Corticosterone Contributes to Enhanced Conditioned Fear Extinction Recall Journal Article
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Corticosterone pretreatment suppresses stress-induced hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis activity via multiple actions that vary with time, site of action, and de novo protein synthesis Journal Article
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DIFFERENTIAL ACTIVATION OF ADRENAL-STEROID RECEPTORS IN NEURAL AND IMMUNE TISSUES OF SPRAGUE-DAWLEY, FISCHER-344, AND LEWIS RATS Journal Article
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DIURNAL AND ACUTE STRESS-INDUCED CHANGES IN DISTRIBUTION OF PERIPHERAL-BLOOD LEUKOCYTE SUBPOPULATIONS Journal Article
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Defense of adrenocorticosteroid receptor expression in rat hippocampus: Effects of stress and strain Journal Article
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Developmental nicotine exposure elicits multigenerational disequilibria in proBDNF proteolysis and glucocorticoid signaling in the frontal cortices, striata, and hippocampi of adolescent mice Journal Article
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Diazepam attenuation of restraint stress-induced corticosterone levels is enhanced by prior exposure to repeated restraint Journal Article
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Differential expression of ethanol-induced hypothermia in adolescent and adult rats induced by pretest familiarization to the handling/injection procedure. Journal Article
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Differential pattern of c-fos mRNA rat brain following central and systemic administration of interleukin-1-beta: Implications for mechanism of action Journal Article
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Differential responses of hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal axis immediate early genes to corticosterone and circadian drive Journal Article
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Diminished circadian rhythms in hippocampal microglia may contribute to age-related neuroinflammatory sensitization Journal Article
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Disruption of mineralocorticoid receptor function increases corticosterone responding to a mild, but not moderate, psychological stressor Journal Article
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Disruption of neuroendocrine stress responses to acute ferret odor by medial, but not central amygdala lesions in rats Journal Article
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Distribution of Organic Cation Transporter 3, a Corticosterone-Sensitive Monoamine Transporter, in the Rat Brain Journal Article
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Diurnal Corticosterone Presence and Phase Modulate Clock Gene Expression in the Male Rat Prefrontal Cortex Journal Article
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Diurnal differences in basal and acute stress levels of type I and type II adrenal steroid receptor activation in neural and immune tissues. Journal Article
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Diurnal expression of functional and clock-related genes throughout the rat HPA axis: system-wide shifts in response to a restricted feeding schedule Journal Article
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Dynamic glucocorticoid-dependent regulation of Sgk1 expression in oligodendrocytes of adult male rat brain by acute stress and time of day Journal Article
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EFFECTS OF CHRONIC CORTICOSTERONE INGESTION ON SPATIAL MEMORY PERFORMANCE AND HIPPOCAMPAL SEROTONERGIC FUNCTION Journal Article
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EFFECTS OF STRESS ON IMMUNE CELL DISTRIBUTION - DYNAMICS AND HORMONAL MECHANISMS Journal Article
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Effects of major histocompatibility complex class II knockout on mouse bone mechanical properties during development Journal Article
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Effects of maternal separation on serotonergic systems in the dorsal and median raphe nuclei of adult male Tph2-deficient mice Journal Article
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Effects of photoperiod on brain corticosteroid receptors and the stress response in the golden hamster (Mesocricetus auratus) Journal Article
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Effects of selective type I and II adrenal steroid agonists on immune cell distribution. Journal Article
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Effects of steroid hormones on spermatogenesis and GnRH release in male Leopard frogs, Rana pipiens Journal Article
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Effects of vagotomy on serum endotoxin, cytokines, and corticosterone after intraperitoneal lipopolysaccharide Journal Article
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Effects of viral infection on corticosterone secretion and glucocorticoid receptor binding in immune tissues Journal Article
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Emotion-induced amnesia in rats: Working memory-specific impairment, corticosterone-memory correlation, and fear versus arousal effects on memory Journal Article
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Endocannabinoid signaling as an intrinsic component of the circuits mediating adaptive responses to repeated stress exposure in adult male sprague dawley rats Journal Article
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Endocrine and immune responses of larval amphibians to trematode exposure Journal Article
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Endogenous glucocorticoids play a positive regulatory role in the anti-keyhole limpet hemocyanin in vivo antibody response Journal Article
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Evaluation of RU28318 and RU40555 as selective mineralocorticoid receptor and glucocorticoid receptor antagonists, respectively: Receptor measures and functional studies Journal Article
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Evidence for a lack of phasic inhibitory properties of habituated stressors on HPA axis responses in rats Journal Article
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Evidence for mineralocorticoid receptor facilitation of glucocorticoid receptor-dependent regulation of hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis activity Journal Article
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Evidence that brief stress may induce the acute phase response in rats. Journal Article
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Evidence that cholecystokinin receptors are not involved in the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal response to intraperitoneal administration of interleukin-1 beta Journal Article
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Exercise and neuroendocrine regulation of antibody production: Protective effect of physical activity on stress-induced suppression of the specific antibody response Journal Article
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Experimental manipulation of a signal trait reveals complex phenotype-behaviour coordination Journal Article
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Exposing rats to a predator blocks primed burst potentiation in the hippocampus in vitro. Journal Article
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Exposure to acute stress induces brain interleukin-1β protein in the rat Journal Article
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Expression of c-fos and BDNF mRNA in subregions of the prefrontal cortex of male and female rats after acute uncontrollable stress Journal Article
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Expression of alpha(1b) adrenoceptor mRNA in corticotropin-releasing hormone-containing cells of the rat hypothalamus and its regulation by corticosterone Journal Article
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Fecal corticosterone levels in RCAN1 mutant mice. Journal Article
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Ferret odor as a processive stress model in rats: Neurochernical, behavioral, and endocrine evidence Journal Article
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Fluoxetine inhibits corticotropin-releasing factor (CRF)-induced behavioural responses in rats Journal Article
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Fluoxetine potentiates the effects of corticotropin-releasing factor on locomotor activity and serotonergic systems in the roughskin newt, Taricha granulosa Journal Article
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Fos expression is selectively and differentially regulated by endogenous glucocorticoids in the paraventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus and the dentate gyrus Journal Article
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Glucocorticoid Fast Feedback Inhibition of Stress Induced ACTH Secretion in the Male Rat: Rate Independence and Stress-State Resistance Journal Article
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Glucocorticoids Mediate Short-Term High-Fat Diet Induction of Neuroinflammatory Priming, the NLRP3 Inflammasome, and the Danger Signal HMGB1 Journal Article
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Glucocorticoids inhibit soluble phospholipase C activity and cytosolic guanine nucleotide regulatory protein-alpha i immunoreactivity in spleen. Journal Article
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Glucocorticoids mediate stress induction of the alarmin HMGB1 and reduction of the microglia checkpoint receptor CD200R1 in limbic brain structures Journal Article
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Greater glucocorticoid receptor activation in hippocampus of aged rats sensitizes microglia Journal Article
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Habitual physical activity facilitates stress-induced HSP72 induction in brain, peripheral, and immune tissues Journal Article
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Habituation of hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenocortical axis hormones to repeated homotypic stress and subsequent heterotypic stressor exposure in male and female rats Journal Article
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Heterogeneous hosts: how variation in host size, behaviour and immunity affects parasite aggregation Journal Article
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IL-1 is a mediator of increases in slow-wave sleep induced by CRH receptor blockade Journal Article
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INTERLEUKIN-1-BETA INDUCED CORTICOSTERONE ELEVATION AND HYPOTHALAMIC NE DEPLETION IS VAGALLY MEDIATED Journal Article
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INVERTED-U RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE LEVEL OF PERIPHERAL CORTICOSTERONE AND THE MAGNITUDE OF HIPPOCAMPAL PRIMED BURST POTENTIATION Journal Article
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Immediate-early gene induction in hippocampus and cortex as a result of novel experience is not directly related to the stressfulness of that experience Journal Article
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Impaired adaptation of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis to chronic ethanol stress in aged rats Journal Article
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Inescapable shock induces resistance to the effects of dexamethasone Journal Article
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Inhibitory Effects of Corticosterone in the Hypothalamic Paraventricular Nucleus (PVN) on Stress-Induced Adrenocorticotrophic Hormone Secretion and Gene Expression in the PVN and Anterior Pituitary Journal Article
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Is spaceflight-induced immune dysfunction linked to systemic changes in metabolism? Journal Article
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Lack of Contextual Modulation of Habituated Neuroendocrine Responses to Repeated Audiogenic Stress Journal Article
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Limited brain diffusion of the glucocorticoid receptor agonist RU28362 following i.c.v. administration: Implications for i.c.v. drug delivery and glucocorticoid negative feedback in the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis Journal Article
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Local inhibition of uptake(2) transporters augments stress-induced increases in serotonin in the rat central amygdala Journal Article
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Local perfusion of corticosterone in the rat medial hypothalamus potentiates D-fenfluramine-induced elevations of extracellular 5-HT concentrations Journal Article
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Long-term changes in mineralocorticoid and glucocorticoid receptor occupancy following exposure to an acute stressor Journal Article
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Long-term habituation to repeated loud noise is impaired by relatively short interstressor intervals in rats Journal Article
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MECHANISM OF INTERLEUKIN 12-MEDIATED TOXICITIES DURING EXPERIMENTAL VIRAL-INFECTIONS - ROLE OF TUMOR-NECROSIS-FACTOR AND GLUCOCORTICOIDS Journal Article
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MEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX ACTIVITY CAN DISRUPT THE EXPRESSION OF STRESS RESPONSE HABITUATION Journal Article
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MODULATION OF HIPPOCAMPAL PRIMED BURST POTENTIATION BY ANESTHESIA Journal Article
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Memory for context is impaired by a post context exposure injection of interleukin-1 beta into dorsal hippocampus Journal Article
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Microglia inflammatory responses are controlled by an intrinsic circadian clock Journal Article
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Modulation of the hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenocortical axis by caffeine Journal Article
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Myostatin expression is increased by food deprivation in a muscle-specific manner and contributes to muscle atrophy during prolonged food deprivation in mice Journal Article
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Neonatal handling enhances contextual fear conditioning and alters corticosterone stress responses in young rats Journal Article
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Non-associative defensive responses of rats to ferret odor Journal Article
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Organic cation transporter 3: A cellular mechanism underlying rapid, non-genomic glucocorticoid regulation of monoaminergic neurotransmission, physiology, and behavior Journal Article
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Organic cation transporter inhibition increases medial hypothalamic serotonin under basal conditions and during mild restraint Journal Article
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PHENYLEPHRINE-INDUCED ANTINOCICEPTION - INVESTIGATIONS OF POTENTIAL NEURAL AND ENDOCRINE BASES Journal Article
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PSYCHOLOGICAL STRESS REPEATEDLY BLOCKS HIPPOCAMPAL PRIMED BURST POTENTIATION IN BEHAVING RATS Journal Article
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Plasma catecholamine and corticosterone and their in vitro effects on lizard skeletal muscle lactate metabolism. Journal Article
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Pre-training administration of tianeptine, but not propranolol, protects hippocampus-dependent memory from being impaired by predator stress Journal Article
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Prior exposure to glucocorticoids potentiates lipopolysaccharide induced mechanical allodynia and spinal neuroinflammation Journal Article
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Prior laparotomy or corticosterone potentiates lipopolysaccharide-induced fever and sickness behaviors Journal Article
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Prior stressor exposure primes the HPA axis Journal Article
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Prolonged sleep fragmentation of mice exacerbates febrile responses to lipopolysaccharide Journal Article
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RU-486 blocks differentially suppressive effect of stress on in vivo anti-KLH immunoglobulin response. Journal Article
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Rapid corticosteroid-dependent regulation of mineralocorticoid receptor protein expression in rat brain Journal Article
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Rat strains that differ in corticotropin-releasing hormone production exhibit different sleep-wake responses to interleukin 1 Journal Article
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Reduced sleep, stress responsivity, and female sex contribute to persistent inflammation-induced mechanical hypersensitivity in rats Journal Article
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Regulation of hippocampal α1d adrenergic receptor mRNA by corticosterone in adrenalectomized rats Journal Article
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Remote CB1 receptor antagonist administration reveals multiple sites of tonic and phasic endocannabinoid neuroendocrine regulation Journal Article
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Restraint stress and exogenous corticosterone differentially alter sensitivity to the sedative-hypnotic effects of ethanol in inbred long-sleep and inbred short-sleep mice Journal Article
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Reversible inactivation of the auditory thalamus disrupts HPA axis habituation to repeated loud noise stress exposures Journal Article
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Role of corticotropin-releasing hormone in stressor-induced alterations of sleep in rat Journal Article
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Role of the dorsomedial hypothalamus in glucocorticoid-mediated feedback inhibition of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis Journal Article
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SEX DIFFERENCES IN ACTIVATED CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING FACTOR NEURONS WITHIN STRESS-RELATED NEUROCIRCUITRY AND HYPOTHALAMIC-PITUITARY-ADRENOCORTICAL AXIS HORMONES FOLLOWING RESTRAINT IN RATS Journal Article
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STRESS-RESPONSE, ADRENAL-STEROID RECEPTOR LEVELS AND CORTICOSTEROID-BINDING GLOBULIN LEVELS - A COMPARISON BETWEEN SPRAGUE-DAWLEY, FISCHER-344 AND LEWIS RATS Journal Article
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Select steroid hormone glucuronide metabolites can cause toll-like receptor 4 activation and enhanced pain Journal Article
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Selective blockade of the mineralocorticoid receptor impairs hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis expression of habituation Journal Article
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Serotonergic activation stimulates the pituitary-adrenal axis and alters interleukin-1 mRNA expression in rat brain Journal Article
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Serotonergic systems in the balance: CRHR1 and CRHR2 differentially control stress-induced serotonin synthesis Journal Article
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Sex differences in dendritic atrophy of CA3 pyramidal neurons in response to chronic restraint stress Journal Article
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Short-term treadmill running in the rat: what kind of stressor is it? Journal Article
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Signaling stress? An analysis of phaeomelanin-based plumage color and individual corticosterone levels at two temporal scales in North American barn swallows, Hirundo rustica erythrogaster Journal Article
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Six weeks of voluntary wheel running modulates inflammatory protein (MCP-1, IL-6, and IL-10) and DAMP (Hsp72) responses to acute stress in white adipose tissue of lean rats Journal Article
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Specific and time-dependent effects of glucocorticoid receptor agonist RU28362 on stress-induced pro-opiomelanocortin hnRNA, c-fos mRNA and zif268 mRNA in the pituitary Journal Article
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Spinal Cord Injury in Rats Disrupts the Circadian System Journal Article
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Staphylococcal enterotoxin B induces fever, brain c-Fos expression, and serum corticosterone in rats Journal Article
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Stress and success: Individual differences in the glucocorticoid stress response predict behavior and reproductive success under high predation risk Journal Article
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Stress rapidly increases alpha 1d adrenergic receptor mRNA in the rat dentate gyrus Journal Article
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Stress response, gut microbial diversity and sexual signals correlate with social interactions Journal Article
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Stress-induced changes in blood leukocyte distribution - Role of adrenal steroid hormones Journal Article
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Stress-induced glucocorticoids suppress the antisense molecular regulation of FGF-2 expression Journal Article
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Stressor-specific effects of sex on HPA axis hormones and activation of stress-related neurocircuitry Journal Article
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Synergy between chronic corticosterone and sodium azide treatments in producing a spatial learning deficit and inhibiting cytochrome oxidase activity Journal Article
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TNF-alpha-induced corticosterone elevation but not serum protein or corticosteroid binding globulin reduction is vagally mediated Journal Article
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The Impact of Stressor Exposure and Glucocorticoids on Anxiety and Fear Journal Article
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The effect of stressor controllability on stress-induced neuropeptide mRNA expression within the paraventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus Journal Article
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The enhancement of hippocampal primed burst potentiation by dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate (DHEAS) is blocked by psychological stress. Journal Article
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The influence of corticosterone and glucagon on metabolic recovery from exhaustive exercise in the desert iguana Dipsosaurus dorsalis Journal Article
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The protective effects of voluntary exercise against the behavioral consequences of uncontrollable stress persist despite an increase in anxiety following forced cessation of exercise Journal Article
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The role of IL-1 beta in stress-induced sensitization of proinflammatory cytokine and corticosterone responses Journal Article
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The role of glucocorticoids in the uncontrollable stress-induced potentiation of nucleus accumbens shell dopamine and conditioned place preference responses to morphine Journal Article
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Thermogenic and corticosterone responses to intravenous cytokines (IL-1β and TNF-α) are attenuated by subdiaphragmatic vagotomy Journal Article
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Timecourse and corticosterone sensitivity of the brain, pituitary, and serum interleukin-1β protein response to acute stress Journal Article
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Tonic, But Not Phasic Corticosterone, Constrains Stress Activated Extracellular-Regulated-Kinase 1/2 Immunoreactivity Within the Hypothalamic Paraventricular Nucleus Journal Article
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VISIBLE BURROW SYSTEM AS A MODEL OF CHRONIC SOCIAL STRESS - BEHAVIORAL AND NEUROENDOCRINE CORRELATES Journal Article
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Variations in Phase and Amplitude of Rhythmic Clock Gene Expression across Prefrontal Cortex, Hippocampus, Amygdala, and Hypothalamic Paraventricular and Suprachiasmatic Nuclei of Male and Female Rats Journal Article
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Wheel running alters patterns of uncontrollable stress-induced cfos mRNA expression in rat dorsal striatum direct and indirect pathways: A possible role for plasticity in adenosine receptors Journal Article
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c-fos mRNA Induction in Acute and Chronic Audiogenic Stress: Possible Role of the Orbitofrontal Cortex in Habituation Journal Article