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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 May 2.
Published in final edited form as: Psychoneuroendocrinology. 2008 Apr 2;33(5):659–669. doi: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2008.02.006

Figure 3.

Figure 3

Exposure to CVS elevated basal AM plasma ACTH levels (A). Exposure to CVS also elevated the plasma ACTH response to acute restraint stress at 20 min following onset of restraint only in sham rats (B). Lesions of the BSTpm potentiated the plasma ACTH response to acute restraint stress at 20 min following onset of restraint regardless of CVS exposure, and at 40 min following onset of restraint only in rats with no exposure to CVS (B). Lesions of the BSTpm elevated the integrated plasma ACTH response regardless of CVS exposure (C). Data are presented as mean ± SEM, n = 8–12. * p < 0.05 versus respective ‘No CVS’, # p < 0.05 versus respective ‘Sham’. Abbreviations: AUC, area under the curve.