CORTICOSTERONE

kôrˌtəkōstĕrˈōn, steroid hormone secreted by the outer layer, or cortex, of the adrenal gland. Classed as a glucocorticoid, corticosterone helps regulate the conversion of amino acids into carbohydrates and glycogen by the liver, and helps stimulate glycogen formation in the tissues. Corticosterone is similar in structure, although somewhat less potent, than the other glucocorticoids cortisol and cortisone. It is produced in response to stimulation by the pituitary substance adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH). In some species, but not in humans, corticosterone is the predominant glucocorticoid secreted by the adrenal. It is a precursor in the synthesis of aldosterone, another adrenal cortical steroid.

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Biology of Aggression
Book by Randy J. Nelson; Oxford University Press, 2006
Subjects: Aggressiveness--Physiological Aspects--Handbooks, Manuals, Etc
...nonterritorial males display elevated plasma corticosterone and de- pressed plasma testosterone...globulin that binds both androgens and corticosterone and the binding capacity in territorial...higher plasma concentrations of unbound corticosterone in the nonterritorial males. This...
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Advances in the Study of Behavior - Vol. 33
Book by Peter J. B. Slater, Jay S. Rosenblatt, Timothy J. Roper, Charles T. Snowdon, Marc Naguib; Academic Press, 2003
Subjects: Animal Behavior, Human Behavior
...amygdala which then invokes a rise in corticosterone. Although this pathway has not been...could be tested by depressing the corticosterone level by injecting the specific compound...the conversion of the precursor of corticosterone (deoxycorticosterone) to corticosterone...
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Stress and Addiction: Biological and Psychological Mechanisms
Book by Mustafa Al'Absi; Academic Press, 2007
Subjects: Drug Abuse--Physiological Aspects, Drug Abuse--Psychological Aspects, Stress (Psychology), Stress (Psychology)--Physiological Aspects
...related decreases in plasma corticosterone and ongoing cocaine self-administration, suggesting that corticosterone is involved in the maintenance...Ellinwood, 1989) and since corticosterone has been implicated in cocaine...
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The Molecular Control of Cellular Activity
Book by John M. Allen; McGraw-Hill, 1962
Subjects: Cytology
...glutamic dehydrogenase. They chose corticosterone for their tests because it is known...carried out a series of experiments with corticosterone present at a concentration of about...limiting reagent, the addition of corticosterone at concentrations of 10- 6 to 10...
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Handbook of Contemporary Learning Theories
Book by Robert R. Mowrer, Stephen B. Klein; Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2001
Subjects: Cognition, Learning, Learning, Psychology Of
TABLE 10.4 Corticosterone-Autoshaping Pearson Product-Moment Correlations Autoshaping Sessions Corticosterone 1-10 15-19 Presession .132...599 * .275 Note . Presession corticosterone levels were determined from samples...
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journal articles on: Corticosterone  - 109 results

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The Fungicide Chlorothalonil Is Nonlinearly Associated with Corticosterone Levels, Immunity, and Mortality in Amphibians
Journal article by Taegan A. Mcmahon, Neal T. Halstead, Steve Johnson, Thomas R. Raffel, John M. Romansic, Patrick W. Crumrine, Raoul K. Boughton, Lynn B. Martin, Jason R. Rohr; Environmental Health Perspectives, Vol. 119, 2011
Subjects: Amphibians--Health aspects, Chlorothalonil--Health aspects, Chlorothalonil--Research, Corticosterone--Physiological aspects, Corticosterone--Research, Mortality--Research, Mortality--United States
...Chlorothalonil Is Nonlinearly Associated with Corticosterone Levels, Immunity, and Mortality...chlorothalonil on the stress hormone corticosterone. RESULTS: For both species in the...treatments. For O. septentrionalis, corticosterone exhibited a similar nonmonotonic dose...
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Increased Serum Corticosterone and Glucose in Offspring of chromium(III)-Treated Male Mice
Journal article by Robert Y.S. Cheng, W. Gregory Alvord, Douglas Powell, Kazimierz S. Kasprzak, Lucy M. Anderson; Environmental Health Perspectives, Vol. 110, 2002
Increased serum corticosterone and glucose in offspring of chromium...significant increases in average serum corticosterone and glucose, compared with control...changed in correlation with serum corticosterone levels. In the present study...
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Effects of Acute Administration of Ethanol on the Rat Adrenal Cortex *
Journal article by Tatjana Milovanovic, Mirela Budec, Ljiljana Balint-Peric, Vesna Koko, Vera Todorovic; Journal of Studies on Alcohol, Vol. 64, 2003
Subjects: Adrenal cortex--Physiological aspects, Alcohol, Denatured--Physiological aspects, Alcohol--Physiological aspects, Corticosterone--Physiological aspects
...ethanol treatment increases the level of corticosterone (Rivier, 1993, 1999; Thiagarajan...ethanol intake has no effect on serum corticosterone concentration in male rats (Silva...female rats release more ACTH and corticosterone than males do (Rivier, 1993...
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Maternal Stress Modulates the Effects of Developmental Lead Exposure
Journal article by Deborah A. Cory-Slechta, Miriam B. Virgolini, Mona Thiruchelvam, Doug D. Weston, Mark R. Bauter; Environmental Health Perspectives, Vol. 112, 2004
Subjects: Risk factors (Health)
...exposure (150 ppm in drinking water) on corticosterone levels of offspring, as well as on...in females) permanently elevated corticosterone levels in offspring; even short...intercurrent risk factors. Key words: corticosterone, dopamine, frontal cortex, lead...
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Adrenocortical Response to Stress and Thyroid Hormone Status in Free-Living Nestling White Storks (Ciconia Ciconia) Exposed to Heavy Metal and Arsenic Contamination
Journal article by Raquel Baos, Julio Blas, Gary R. Bortolotti, Tracy A. Marchant, Fernando Hiraldo; Environmental Health Perspectives, Vol. 114, 2006
Subjects: Birds, Heavy metals, Hormones
...determine both baseline and maximum plasma corticosterone. Circulating levels of thyroxine (T...of metals or As were found on baseline corticosterone, but maximum levels of corticosterone were positively related to Pb in both...
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The Brain on Stress
Magazine article by Jenny Marder; The Scientist, Vol. 21, August 2007
Subjects: Brain, Hormones, Rodents, Stress, Studies
...glucocorticoids: Cortisol in humans and corticosterone in rats. Romeo wanted to study this...measure the levels of stress hormones - corticosterone and ACTH - in its blood. He would...and started to check the levels of corticosterone and ACTH in the rats blood, he remembers...
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Steroid Action Gets a Rewrite
Magazine article by Mark Greener; The Scientist, Vol. 17, September 8, 2003
...actively imports steroids such as corticosterone, cortisol, and particular gestagens...rat brain produces aldosterone and corticosterone (the rat equivalent of cortisol...aldosterone by aldosterone synthase or to corticosterone by 11beta-hydroxylase. The enzymes...
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Norepinephrine and Memory
Magazine article by Douglas Steinberg; The Scientist, Vol. 18, August 2, 2004
...suggests otherwise. The researchers injected rats with corticosterone, which belongs to the family of glucocorticoid hormones whose levels rise in stressful situations. Corticosterone impaired retrieval, but concurrent administration of the...
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City Serenity
Magazine article by Stéphan Reebs; Natural History, Vol. 115, November 2006
Subjects: Animal behavior, Animal reproduction, Birds, Cities, Urban areas
...placing it in a cloth bag for an hour, all the while drawing blood samples. The results: the cityborn birds secreted less corticosterone, a stress hormone, than their forest cousins. The difference in stress response might have arisen in early nest experiences...
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Antiaging Products and Tactics
Magazine article by W. Marvin Davis; Drug Topics, Vol. 141, February 17, 1997
Subjects: Aging, Continuing education, Health & beauty aids, Pharmacists, United States
...recent research seems to offer a rationale for this view. The glucocorticoid (GC) stress hormone of the adrenal cortex-corticosterone in rodents-has been found to exert a depleting effect on neurons of the brain in the hippocampal region, which by many...
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How Stress and Aggression Can Feed off Each Other
Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), October 4, 2004
...suddenly released the stress hormone corticosterone, which helps prepare animals for...glands to prevent natural release of corticosterone, and artificially injected the hormone...in order to facilitate fighting. Corticosterone is very similar to cortisone, which...
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15 Reasons Why Yo-Yo Is a No-No; DANGEROUS DIETS EXPOSED
Newspaper article; Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland), December 2, 2010
Subjects: Eating disorders
...dieting mice had lost 10-15 per cent of their body weight but they also showed increased levels of the stress hormone corticosterone. Dr Tracy Bale, who led the research at University of Pennsylvania, said: "Dieting not only increases stress, making...
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Battery Hens 'As Happy as Birds That Can Roam outside'; Henpecked: It Has Long Been Thought Caged Birds Are More Stressed
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), July 16, 2007
...shadow comes overand they are completely startled. A team at the universitys poultry unitmeasured levels of the hormone corticosterone in the whites of eggs laid bycaged, barnreared and free-range birds. Dr Downing admitted that the hormone was only one...
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Day the Sun Went out; A New British Sci-Fi Movie Envisages the Death of the Sun Not in Billions of Years, but in Decades. and, Amazingly, the Film's Scientific Adviser Says This May Not Be So Far from the Truth
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), March 8, 2007
...Research found that in areas of the Alps heavily used for the sports, black grouse produced large amounts of the hormone corticosterone, which indicates stress. The future starts here... R2-D2 mobile entertainment system (MES) Tomorrows gadgets reviewed...
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Why Jogging Alone Could Be Bad for Your Health
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), March 13, 2006
Subjects: Cell research, Cytological research
...icy water. They found that the rats which exercised alone handled the pressure less well, producing higher levels of the corticosterone, a stress hormone. Our results are evidence that social interactions can buffer the body and brain from stressful experiences...


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encyclopedia articles on: Corticosterone  - 3 results

 
 
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Corticosterone
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
CORTICOSTERONE kor t koster on, steroid hormone...gland . Classed as a glucocorticoid, corticosterone helps regulate the conversion of...glycogen formation in the tissues. Corticosterone is similar in structure, although...
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Cortisone
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Cortisone is classed as a glucocorticoid with cortisol and corticosterone ; its effects include increased glucose release from the...cortisone is manufactured in the body than either cortisol or corticosterone and although cortisone is less potent than cortisol, the...
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Hormone
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...The adrenal medulla secretes epinephrine and norepinephrine while the cortex of the same gland releases aldosterone , corticosterone , cortisol , and cortisone . The ovaries primarily secrete estrogen and progesterone and the testes testosterone . The adrenal...


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