Effects of Stress on Animal Metabolism
A special issue of Metabolites (ISSN 2218-1989). This special issue belongs to the section "Animal Metabolism".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 18 August 2025 | Viewed by 800
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Dear Colleagues,
Within the simple but profound pioneering concept of stress advanced by Hans Selye, this Special Issue will explore the different responses of animals to individual stresses, looking at multiple categories of stressors, including the following:
- Physical stressors, e.g., injury followed by healing, low or high temperatures, lack of water, and either insufficient or excess sodium;
- Nutritional stresses, encompassing deficiencies in energy and specific nutrients;
- Metabolic stressors, such as type 1 and 2 diabetes;
- Pathogens as stressors;
- Environmental toxicants as stressors;
- Oxidative stresses;
- Psychological stressors that impair welfare.
Responses to stressors can include the activation of the following:
- The hypothalamus–pituitary–adrenal cortical axis, with cortisol as the major glucocorticoid in mammalian livestock and corticosterone as the major glucocorticoid in poultry and rodents;
- Met-enkephalin and other opioid peptides;
- The adrenal medulla, releasing epinephrine and/or norepinephrine;
- Other stress-related hormones: growth hormone, prolactin, and ghrelin;
- Protective responses to oxidative stresses;
- Inflammatory cytokines.
This Special Issue, “Effects of Stress on Animal Metabolism”, will focus on these effects in domesticated animals but will not only include animal models and evolutionary considerations. Rather, it is anticipated that this Special Issue will also feature work from researchers in multiple fields, including physiology, nutrition, immunology, animal and poultry science, and veterinary medicine.
Prof. Dr. Krystyna Pierzchala-Koziec
Prof. Dr. Colin Scanes
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- stressors
- ACTH
- glucocorticoids
- mineralocorticoids
- opioids
- glycemia
- growth
- development
- lactation
- pregnancy
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