As an indicator of HPA axis function, serum corticosterone levels were determined by enzyme immunoassay at various time points.
The CAR is considered to be a reliable indicator of HPA axis function and has been studied extensively, not only in healthy populations, but also in relation to many disorders [ 22].
This study suggests that physical and social environmental influences interact to alter aspects of maternal diurnal cortisol profiles, an indicator of HPA axis activity, among a sample of pregnant women in Mexico City.
These investigators found that longer-abstaining people showed a stronger cortisol awakening response, another indicator of HPA axis function, implying that diurnal patterns of cortisol may begin to normalize over longer periods of abstinence.
Cortisol is an indicator of hypothalamic pituitary adrenal axis responsivity to stress, but few twin studies have examined the heritability of cortisol concentrations in adults across the diurnal cycle and in different contexts.
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Studies using brain imaging [ 35] and indicators of HPA axis activity [ 36] may yield some reliable findings with clinical import.
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Most recently Straub and colleagues have shown that the most sensitive indicator of blunted HPA axis responsiveness in early, untreated PA is an inappropriately low ratio of cortisol to IL-6 in these subjects [ 228].
Salivary cortisol is an indicator of Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal Hypothalamic-Pituitary-AdrenaltHPAaxistactivityoutcome, which is the result of the andraisal of and caning with stress [ 13].
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