The quantification of endogenous steroid hormone concentrations in hair is increasingly
used as a method for obtaining retrospective information on long-term integrated hormone …

Hair cortisol levels are increasingly applied as a measure for stress in humans and
mammals. Cortisol is an endogenous compound and is always present within the hair …

Hair cortisol analysis is a potentially powerful tool for evaluating adrenal function and
chronic stress. However, the technique has only recently been applied widely to studies of …

Abstract Background African Americans have higher diabetes prevalence compared to
Whites. They also have elevated cortisol levels− indicating possible HPA axis …

Background Cortisol is a hormone involved in many physiological functions including fetal
maturation and epigenetic programming during pregnancy. This study aimed to use hair …

Understanding stress in primates has wide ranging implications. It impacts how we
understand human stress from an evolutionary perspective and how captive and laboratory …

Cortisol is the primary output of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis and is central
to the human biological stress response, with wide-ranging effects on physiological function …

This chapter describes regulation of the stress hormones and their measurement and
interpretation in psychophysiological research. A hormone is a signaling molecule, secreted …

The World Health Organization has called stress-related illness “the health epidemic of the
21st century.” While the biochemical pathways associated with the acute stress response …

The recommended long-term treatment for asthma is inhaled corticosteroid (ICS) therapy,
but research has shown that ICS use is associated with adrenal suppression. Cortisol is …