Anastasia Sfikakis, Pothitos M. Pitychoutis, Aikaterini Tsouma, Ioanna Messari, Zeta Papadopoulou-Daifoti
OBJECTIVE: To examine the impact of circulating testosterone (T) and the T/Estradiol (T/Ediol) ratio on chronic stress-induced changes of adrenal and hippocampal weight during proestrus (PE) and estrus (E) in female rats. DESIGN: Stress was composed of repeated vaginal smear screening (VSS) and measured by the emotional reactivity score …