Abstract
The social stress of crowding for 3, 7 and 14 days considerably reduced the increase in serum corticosterone elicited by intracerebroventricular administration of isoprenaline, a beta-adrenergic agonist, on the 3rd and 7th days of crowding. The corticosterone response to clonidine, an alpha 2-adrenergic agonist, was significantly diminished only after 3 days of crowding and this reduction was paralleled by a significant decrease in hypothalamic histamine content. The stimulatory effect of phenylephrine, an alpha 1-adrenergic agonist, was not significantly changed by crowding stress. Social crowding stress caused almost total and persistent reduction in the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenocortical (HPA) responsiveness to noradrenaline which stimulates the HPA axis via both alpha- and beta-adrenergic receptors.
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