Gonadal Hormones and Heart Rate as an Acute Emotional Stress Response

摘要: Elevated blood pressure without known organic cause is a condition strongly influenced by psychosocial factors1,2,3. Women during the reproductive period of life generally have lower pressures4 and incidence essential hypertension5. A modulating role has been ascribed to female sex hormones. An hypothesis that oestrogens and/or progestagens are responsible for reduction impact stimuli on normal regulation in women supported human psychophysiological experiments6. In our studies we tried elucidate gonadal hormone production differential effects oestradiol progesterone laboratory rat. We chosen heart rate as sensitive cardiovascular parameter acute emotional responsiveness standardized procedure environmental non-physical threat.