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Representative 24-hour profiles of plasma ACTH and cortisol levels sampled at 15-minute intervals in a healthy young man studied under normal conditions. During scheduled sleep times (shown as a black bar), the sampling catheter was connected to plastic tubing extending into the adjacent room to avoid disturbing the subject. The parallelism of both pulsatile and circadian variations of ACTH and cortisol concentrations is evident.
