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ACTH

Description: A peptide hormone, also called adrenocorticotropic hormone or corticotropin, that stimulates the adrenal cortex and is studied in endocrinology and physiology.
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The ‘Trier Social Stress Test’ – A Tool for Investigating Psychobiological Stress Responses in a Laboratory Setting
2008 · Clemens Kirschbaum, Karl-Martin Pirke, et al. · Neuropsychobiology · 6,088
Acute Stressors and Cortisol Responses: A Theoretical Integration and Synthesis of Laboratory Research.
2004 · Sally S. Dickerson, Margaret E. Kemeny · Psychological Bulletin · 5,867
Characterization of a 41-Residue Ovine Hypothalamic Peptide that Stimulates Secretion of Corticotropin and β-Endorphin
1982 · WYLIE VALE, JOACHIM SPIESS, et al. · Obstetrical & Gynecological Survey · 3,904
The Neuroendocrinology of Stress: A Never Ending Story
2008 · S. L. Lightman · Journal of Neuroendocrinology · 3,568
Maternal Care, Hippocampal Glucocorticoid Receptors, and Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal Responses to Stress
1997 · Dong Liu, Josie Diorio, et al. · Science · 3,173
Postnatal microbial colonization programs the hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal system for stress response in mice
2004 · Nobuyuki Sudo, Yoichi Chida, et al. · The Journal of Physiology · 2,727
Melanin Pigmentation in Mammalian Skin and Its Hormonal Regulation
2004 · Andrzej Slominski, Desmond J. Tobin, et al. · Physiological Reviews · 2,014
Salivary cortisol as a biomarker in stress research
2008 · Dirk H. Hellhammer, Stefan Wüst, et al. · Psychoneuroendocrinology · 1,924
Detection of Circulating Tumor Necrosis Factor after Endotoxin Administration
1988 · Hamish R. Michie, Kirk R. Manogue, et al. · New England Journal of Medicine · 1,678
The Cloning of a Family of Genes That Encode the Melanocortin Receptors
1992 · Kathleen G. Mountjoy, Linda S. Robbins, et al. · Science · 1,634
The Novel Hypothalamic Peptide Ghrelin Stimulates Food Intake and Growth Hormone Secretion
2000 · A. M. Wren, C. J. Small, et al. · Endocrinology · 1,592
Stress Hormones: Their Interaction and Regulation
1984 · Julius Axelrod, Terry D. Reisine · Science · 1,525
Immunoregulatory Feedback Between Interleukin-1 and Glucocorticoid Hormones
1986 · Hugo Besedovsky, Adriana del Rey, et al. · Science · 1,521
β-Endorphin and Adrenocorticotropin Are Selected Concomitantly by the Pituitary Gland
1977 · Roger Guillemin, Therese Vargo, et al. · Science · 1,419
Limbic system mechanisms of stress regulation: Hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenocortical axis
2005 · James P. Herman, Michelle M. Ostrander, et al. · Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry · 1,322
The Effect of a Hormone of the Adrenal Cortex (17-hyd Roxy-11-dehydrocorticosterone: Compound E) and of Pituitary Adrenocorticotropic Hormone on Rheumatoid Arthritis
1949 · Philip S. Hench, Edward C. Kendall, et al. · Mayo Clinic Proceedings · 1,179
A chimaeric llβ-hydroxylase/aldosterone synthase gene causes glucocorticoid-remediable aldosteronism and human hypertension
1992 · Richard P. Lifton, Robert G. Dluhy, et al. · Nature · 1,171
Localization of the melanocortin-4 receptor (MC4-R) in neuroendocrine and autonomic control circuits in the brain
1994 · K G Mountjoy, M T Mortrud, et al. · Molecular Endocrinology · 1,156
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Corticotropin-Releasing Factor-Producing Neurons in the Rat Activated by Interleukin-1
1987 · Frank Berkenbosch, Joep van Oers, et al. · Science · 1,153
The role of the medial prefrontal cortex (cingulate gyrus) in the regulation of hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal responses to stress
1993 · D Diorio, V Viau, et al. · Journal of Neuroscience · 1,149
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Depression and Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal Activation: A Quantitative Summary of Four Decades of Research
2011 · Cinnamon Stetler, Gregory E. Miller · Psychosomatic Medicine · 1,122
Common precursor to corticotropins and endorphins
1977 · Richard E. Mains, Betty A. Eipper, et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 1,105
Exposure of tryptophanyl residues in proteins. Quantitative determination by fluorescence quenching studies
1976 · M. R. Eftink, C. A. Ghiron · Biochemistry · 1,035
The human stress response
2019 · Georgina Russell, Stafford Lightman · Nature Reviews Endocrinology · 1,033
Obesity in the mouse model of pro-opiomelanocortin deficiency responds to peripheral melanocortin
1999 · Linda Yaswen, Nicole Diehl, et al. · Nature Medicine · 1,012
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