Yvonne M. Ulrich-Lai

TL;DR: The survival and well-being of all species requires appropriate physiological responses to environmental and homeostatic challenges, so that the respective contributions of the neuroendocrine and autonomic systems are tuned in accordance with stressor modality and intensity.

TL;DR: The principle extrinsic and intrinsic mechanisms responsible for regulating stress-responsive CRH neurons of the hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus, which summate excitatory and inhibitory inputs into a net secretory signal at the pituitary gland, are reviewed.

TL;DR: Exogenous ACTH administration to dexamethasone-blocked rats demonstrated that CVS increased maximal plasma and adrenal corticosterone responses to ACTH without affecting sensitivity, and increased adrenal weight after CVS is due to hyperplasia and hypertrophy that occur in specific adrenal subregions and is associated with increased maximal cortic testosterone responses toACTH.

TL;DR: The results indicate that the BST contains functional subdomains that play different roles in integrating and processing limbic information in response to stress and further suggest that excitatory as well as inhibitory limbic Information is funneled through these important cell groups.

TL;DR: Compared plasma ACTH and corticosterone (Cort) concentrations in pre- and poststress rat blood samples obtained via previously implanted vena cava catheters, tail vein nicks, or clipping the tip off the tail are compared to support either chronic vascular cannulas or sampling from a tail vein.