ArticleBiology letters2016
Energetics of stress: linking plasma cortisol levels to metabolic rate in mammals.
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- Viviparous mothers impose stronger glucocorticoid-mediated maternal stress effects on their offspring than oviparous mothers.Ecology and evolution · 2021Article
- Insomnia with physiological hyperarousal is associated with lower weight: a novel finding and its clinical implications.Translational psychiatry · 2021Article
- Plant Feed Additives as Natural Alternatives to the Use of Synthetic Antioxidant Vitamins on Livestock Mammals' Performances, Health, and Oxidative Status: A Review of the Literature in the Last 20 Years.Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Review
- An approach to assess stress in response to drive hunts using cortisol levels of wild boar (Sus scrofa).Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Glucocorticoids, the evolution of the stress-response, and the primate predicament.Neurobiology of stress · 2021Review
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Abstract
Physiological stress may result in short-term benefits to organismal performance, but also long-term costs to health or longevity. Yet, we lack an understanding of the variation in stress hormone levels (i.e. glucocorticoids) that exist within and across species. Here, we present comparative analyses that link the primary stress hormone in most mammals (i.e. cortisol) to metabolic rate. We show that baseline concentrations of plasma cortisol vary with mass-specific metabolic rate among cortisol-dominant mammals, and both baseline and elevated concentrations scale predictably with body mass. The results quantitatively link a classical measure of physiological stress to whole-organism energetics, providing a point of departure for cross-species comparisons of stress levels among mammals.
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