Glucocorticoids
- Early-life adversity programs long-term cytokine and microglia expression within the HPA axis in female Japanese quail
Summary: Developmental exposure to a non-pathogenic stressor can cause long-term changes in inflammatory and anti-inflammatory cytokine gene expression and microglia abundance in different brain regions involved in stress response regulation.
- Interactions between corticosterone phenotype, environmental stressor pervasiveness and irruptive movement-related survival in the cane toad
Summary: Irruptive movement-related survival is influenced by an interaction between corticosterone phenotype and environmental stressor pervasiveness.
- Exogenous stress hormones alter energetic and nutrient costs of development and metamorphosis
Summary: The energetic and nutrient costs of glucocorticoid-accelerated development alter fitness trade-offs across life stages.
- Short-term and long-term effects of transient exogenous cortisol manipulation on oxidative stress in juvenile brown trout
Summary: Transient exogenous cortisol administration to brown trout causes an increase in glutathione in the short term, but this increase is not maintained in the long term; overwinter survival is associated with low levels of oxidative stress and glutathione.
- Water deprivation increases maternal corticosterone levels and enhances offspring growth in the snake Vipera aspis
Summary: Water deprivation induces an increase in baseline corticosterone level in pregnant aspic vipers, which may subsequently influence offspring growth.