The effect of four kinds of traditional Chinese herbal compound on the experimental acute stress behaviors and the hypothalamus pituitary-adrenal gland axis;

Results Acute stress significantly reduced E2 levels in each period of sexual cycle and increased the levels of P and corticosterone in the stressed rats.

Objective To explore the effects of adrenoceptor antagonist propranolol and prasozin on the chronic unpredictable mild stress rats\' behavioral changes, and serum corticosterone level in rats after being subjected to the acute stress, as well as levels of inducible heat shock protein 70 and inducible nitric oxide synthase, which were expressed in the hippocampus and the prefrontal cortex.