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Stress reaction

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18.01.2023

Stress-resilient fish are born that way; their immune system reveals why

Chen lab mouse adrenals exhibit stress
27.01.2021

Uncovering the activities of the organs, tissues and cells responsible for the body’s stress response as they’ve never before been seen revealed...

mouse fetus and placenta
16.05.2018

Researchers discover the molecule that “programs” a tendency to develop an eating disorder 

Humans are exposed to stress at different intensities throughout life
01.06.2017

Scientists at the Weizmann Institute prevented the onset of eating disorders through dietary intervention

Brain tissue from genetically engineered mice
13.02.2017

A new neural mechanism is found to regulate the chronic stress response

Stress-coping molecule Urocortin-3 (green) and its receptor, CRFR2 (red),
19.07.2016

Weizmann Institute scientists show how a molecule in the mouse’s brain regulates social behavior

CRFR1 -- only for emergencies
26.05.2016

A stress receptor in the brain is found to regulate metabolic responses to stressful situations differently in male and female mice

Chromosome pairs: Does doubling them help or hurt? Image: Wikimedia commons
20.03.2013

Does a non-standard number of chromosomes help or hurt the cell?

Cover illustration: the zebrafish stress response
15.05.2012

A unique ON-OFF switch in the brain controls a main stress hormone

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23.02.2012

Both parts of the mechanism – ON and OFF receptors – are encoded in the same gene.

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