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HPA activity in male and female pigs. In undisturbed animals there was no sex difference in resting ACTH or cortisol (n ≥ 48). Females exhibited a greater ACTH response to restraint (*P < 0.05; n ≥ 7) but no sex difference was seen in the ACTH response to the stress associated with anesthesia and surgery (female, n = 3; male, n = 6). There were no sex differences in cortisol response to restraint or the cortisol response to the stress associated with anesthesia and surgery.
