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Salivary cortisol as a biomarker in stress research.
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The present paper addresses several psychological and biological variables, which may account for such dissociations, and aims to help researchers to rate the validity and psychobiological significance of salivary cortisol as an HPAA biomarker of stress in their experiments.About:
This article is published in Psychoneuroendocrinology.The article was published on 2009-02-01. It has received 1472 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Adrenocorticotropic hormone.read more
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Why do we respond so differently? Reviewing determinants of human salivary cortisol responses to challenge.
TL;DR: This overview demonstrates the role of age and gender, endogenous and exogenous sex steroid levels, pregnancy, lactation and breast-feeding, smoking, coffee and alcohol consumption as well as dietary energy supply in salivary cortisol responses to acute stress.
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Measuring stress in wildlife: techniques for quantifying glucocorticoids
Michael J. Sheriff,Michael J. Sheriff,Ben Dantzer,Brendan Delehanty,Rupert Palme,Rudy Boonstra +5 more
TL;DR: An overview of the four main biological samples that have been utilized, their advantages and disadvantages for use with wildlife, and some of the background and pitfalls that users must consider in interpreting their results are given.
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Assessment of the cortisol awakening response: Expert consensus guidelines.
Tobias Stalder,Clemens Kirschbaum,Brigitte M. Kudielka,Emma K. Adam,Jens C. Pruessner,Stefan Wüst,Samantha Dockray,Nina Smyth,Phil Evans,Dirk H. Hellhammer,Robert Miller,Mark Wetherell,Sonia J. Lupien,Angela Clow +13 more
TL;DR: Consensus guidelines are presented on central aspects of CAR assessment, including objective control of sampling accuracy/adherence, participant instructions, covariate accounting, sampling protocols, quantification strategies as well as reporting and interpreting of CAR data.
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The influence of urban green environments on stress relief measures: A field experiment
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the psychological and physiological effects of short-term visits to urban nature environments, and found that the salivary cortisol level decreased in a similar fashion in all three urban environments during the experiment.
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The cortisol awakening response: more than a measure of HPA axis function.
TL;DR: Evidence is presented for reduced adrenal sensitivity to rising levels of ACTH in the pre-awakening period, mediated by an extra-pituitary pathway to the adrenal from the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN).
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Self-reported depressive symptoms and stress levels in healthy young men: associations with the cortisol response to awakening.
TL;DR: Findings of hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal axis hyperactivity in clinical depression are extended to healthy young men with mild levels of depressive symptomatology and cortisol levels and their relationship to measures of stress are investigated.
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Cardiovascular and neuroendocrine adjustment to public speaking and mental arithmetic stressors
Mustafa al'Absi,Stephan Bongard,Tony W. Buchanan,Gwendolyn A. Pincomb,Julio Licinio,William R. Lovallo +5 more
TL;DR: Examination of cardiovascular, neuroendocrine, and psychological adjustment to repeated presentations of a public speaking and a mental arithmetic task found a stable pattern of cardiac activation, whereas repetitions of the mental arithmetic initially produced large cardiac responses that changed to a more vascular tonus across task periods.
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The selfish brain: competition for energy resources
Achim Peters,Ulrich Schweiger,Luc Pellerin,C Hubold,Kerstin M. Oltmanns,M Conrad,Bernd Schultes,Jan Born,H. L. Fehm +8 more
TL;DR: In this article, a new paradigm for the regulation of energy supply within the organism is presented, where the brain gives priority to regulating its own adenosine triphosphate (ATP) concentration.
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Measuring cortisol in human psychobiological studies.
TL;DR: Key points for evaluating the choice of total and free cortisol in research as well as reviewing various options for measuring free cortisol are raised with special emphasis on their significance during pregnancy and the post-partum.
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The influence of ovarian steroids on hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal regulation in the female rat.
TL;DR: It is found that sex steroids modulate HPA activity and it is suggested that the observed effects of these steroids on hippocampal MR may underlie their concerted mechanism of action in inducing an enhanced activity at the period of late pro-oestrus.