acidophils, 92 acinar cell, 86 acinar ducts, 86 actin, 136 adenohypophyseal hormones, 90 adenohypophysis, 90 adrenal gland, 94 adrenocorticotropin hormone (ACTH), 90 afferent arterioles, 71 afferent branchial arteries, 68, 76 alarm cells, 53, 58 alarm pheromones, 53 Alician blue, 3 alveolin, 105 ampulla, 115 amyloid, 3 anatomic, 1 anterior cardinal vein, 76 antibodies, 2 anus, 58, 60 appendicul...

The overall top level goal of this effort is to investigate the physiological i.e. neuroimmunoendocrinological responses of beluga whales to “stressors”. “Stressor events” will allow for a better understanding and characterization of the relationships among hormones (e.g. cortisol, corticosterone, adrenocorticotropin hormone, aldosterone, catecholamines) in different matrices (blood, saliva, bl...

The effects of prostaglandin E1 (PGE1) and indomethacin (IDM) on the release of several pituitary hormones from the rat pituitary were investigated in vitro. An addition of 2 microng/ml of PGE1 to the medium elicited the release of growth hormone (GH) and prolactin, but not of adrenocorticotropin (ACTH) and luteinizing hormone (LH). Although the addition of 1 microng/ml of IDM alone resulted in...

  Background:Chronic active adrenocorticotropin hormone (ACTH) immunization of ewes (with a previous history of immunization) resulted in elevated titres of antibody against ACTH, which induced a reduction in circulating levels of cortisol. Objectives:<span style="color: win...

The distribution of adrenocorticotropin hormone/corticotropin-like intermediate lobe peptide was studied in the cat brain stem, using an indirect immunoperoxidase technique. No immunoreactive cell bodies were observed. However, a high density of immunoreactive fibers was found in the periaqueductal gray, the dorsal nucleus of the raphe, the locus coeruleus, and the marginal nucleus of the brach...

OBJECTIVE The literature on the relationship of depressive symptoms and stress hormones after cancer diagnosis has been mixed, with some studies showing a relationship and other studies showing none. Time since diagnosis may explain these contradictory findings. This study examined the relationship of depressive symptoms to stress hormones in patients with breast cancer using 12-month longitudi...

In birds, intrajugular injection (i.j.) of exogenous adrenocorticotropin hormone (ACTH) has been used to challenge adrenocortical tissue when investigating various dynamics of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis. Although this method has been shown to deliver ACTH efficiently, i.j. injection can be difficult and potentially damaging to the bird, especially to young birds and small spe...