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3562645

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
1987-5-4
pubmed:abstractText
When individual rats were exposed to different intensities of a stressor, foot shock, plasma catecholamines were found to be sensitive and reliable indices of the stress. Plasma corticosterone did not perform as well. Similarly, levels of both plasma epinephrine and norepinephrine correlated highly significantly with a behavioral measure of the degree of stress--namely, the amount of movement about the cage seen during the 30 sec shock period. Importantly, this behavioral measure was as sensitive and reliable an index of stress as the catecholamines. However, use of either the catecholamines or this behavioral measure as a clinically useful measure of the level of stress was limited by the fact that their responses to the stressor were extremely short-lived. Nonetheless, because the catecholamines reliably and sensitively track the intensity of a stressor, they appear to be a good visceral measure of stress, perhaps the best currently available. But the behavioral concomitants of stress are quickly and easily quantifiable and present a wide range to study, starting with alerting, through a progression of more aroused motor activity, and ending with fight-flight. Because the behavioral concomitants of stress have not been as intensively studied as the endocrine ones, we believe that future efforts to find a clinically useful index of stress will be rewarded by a refocussing of attention away from the visceral respondent to the overt behavioral one.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:issn
0031-9384
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
39
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
117-25
pubmed:dateRevised
2008-11-21
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1987
pubmed:articleTitle
Adrenal hormonal indices of stress in laboratory rats.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.