Stress and cortisol

Maule, A.G. and C.B. Schreck. Stress and cortisol treatment changed affinity and number of glucocorticoid receptors in leukocytes and gill of Coho salmon. Gen. Comp. Endocrinol. 84 83-93, 1991. 

Shrimpton, J.M. and D.J. Randall. Downregulation of corticosteroid receptors in gills of coho salmon due to stress and cortisol treatment. Am. J. Physiol. 267 R432-R438, 1994. 

Two years later, the Mt. Sinai research group published three papers on their findings in three different medical journals.2 To sum up their conclusions The cause of intrauterine growth retardation in the infants was apparently not dust and smoke inhaled by the pregnant mothers, but maternal psychological stress and cortisol secretion effects, as indicated by measures of below-normal cortisol levels in their infants. 

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