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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
5
pubmed:dateCreated
2007-4-11
pubmed:abstractText
Hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenal axis responses to various stressors are typically attenuated during lactation, including in rats selectively bred for high or low anxiety. As high-anxiety dams are more aggressive towards intruders than low-anxiety dams during maternal defence, we investigated their hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenal axis responses to this social stress. Maternal defence induced elevated stress responses in high-anxiety dams only; nerve-growth-factor-induced gene B mRNA expression in the parvocellular paraventricular nucleus and adrenocorticotropin hormone secretory responses were substantially enhanced after maternal defence. In contrast, secretory responses to a non-social stress (elevated platform) were not different between high- and low-anxiety dams. Thus, responsiveness of the stress axis in lactation is dependent upon the innate level of anxiety of the dam and, as a consequence, her reactiveness to social threat.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Mar
pubmed:issn
0953-816X
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
25
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1599-603
pubmed:dateRevised
2009-11-19
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:17425585-Adrenocorticotropic Hormone, pubmed-meshheading:17425585-Analysis of Variance, pubmed-meshheading:17425585-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:17425585-Anxiety, pubmed-meshheading:17425585-Behavior, Animal, pubmed-meshheading:17425585-DNA-Binding Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:17425585-Exploratory Behavior, pubmed-meshheading:17425585-Female, pubmed-meshheading:17425585-Hypothalamo-Hypophyseal System, pubmed-meshheading:17425585-Lactic Acid, pubmed-meshheading:17425585-Male, pubmed-meshheading:17425585-Maternal Behavior, pubmed-meshheading:17425585-Maze Learning, pubmed-meshheading:17425585-Nuclear Receptor Subfamily 4, Group A, Member 1, pubmed-meshheading:17425585-Pituitary-Adrenal System, pubmed-meshheading:17425585-Pregnancy, pubmed-meshheading:17425585-Rats, pubmed-meshheading:17425585-Receptors, Cytoplasmic and Nuclear, pubmed-meshheading:17425585-Receptors, Steroid, pubmed-meshheading:17425585-Stress, Psychological, pubmed-meshheading:17425585-Transcription Factors
pubmed:year
2007
pubmed:articleTitle
Social stress induces hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenal axis responses in lactating rats bred for high trait anxiety.
pubmed:affiliation
Centre for Integrative Physiology, College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH8 9XD, UK. alison.j.douglas@ed.ac.uk
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't