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Age-Dependent and Gender-Dependent Regulation of Hypothalamic-Adrenocorticotropic-Adrenal Axis

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Veldhuis, Johannes D., Sharma, Animesh, Roelfsema, Ferdinand·2013·Endocrinology and Metabolism Clinics of North America

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Tightly regulated output of glucocorticoids is critical to maintaining immune competence, the structure of neurons, muscle, and bone, blood pressure, glucose homeostasis, work capacity, and vitality in the human and experimental animal. Age, sex steroids, gender, stress, body composition, and disease govern glucocorticoid availability through incompletely understood mechanisms. According to an ensemble concept of neuroendocrine regulation, successful stress adaptations require repeated incremental signaling adjustments among hypothalamic corticotropin-releasing hormone and arginine vasopressin, pituitary adrenocorticotropic hormone, and adrenal corticosteroids. Signals are transduced via (positive) feedforward and (negative) feedback effects. Age and gonadal steroids strongly modulate stress-adaptive glucocorticoid secretion by such interlinked pathways.

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  • Older men have a phase-advanced acrophase of almost 3 h.

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    From Sleep, testosterone and cortisol balance, and ageing men (2022) · cites this paper as [67]

    The Diurnal Adrenocorticotropic Hormone and Cortisol Rhythms section reports an acrophase around 06:30 in older people versus 09:00 in young people—a phase advance of about 2.5 hours. It does not specify that this comparison applies to older men in particular. (LLM, conf=0.83)

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    “so the 1500 to 1800 time period represents a later circadian time compared to young men [67].”

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  • Age is associated with higher late-afternoon and early-evening cortisol, and an advance in the timing of the cortisol rhythm, but not with cortisol-binding protein.

    “These [65, 66] and other [67] studies are consistent in showing that age is associated with higher late-afternoon and early-evening cortisol, and an advance in the timing (i.e. phase) of the cortisol rhythm, but not with cortisol-binding protein [68].”

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Authors
Veldhuis, J. D., Sharma, A., & Roelfsema, F.
Affiliations
  • Mayo Clinic (US)
  • Leiden University Medical Center (NL)
Corresponding author
Veldhuis, Johannes D.
Venue
Endocrinology and Metabolism Clinics of North America
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2013-06
Volume
42
Issue
2
Pages
201-225
ISSN
0889-8529 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2070843702
Cited by
110
References
261
Citations by year
2026: 8 · 2025: 4 · 2024: 5 · 2023: 12 · 2022: 10 · 2021: 7 · 2020: 9 · 2019: 8 · 2018: 8 · 2017: 11 · 2016: 8 · 2015: 12 · 2014: 8
FWCI
0.76
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Endocrinology and Metabolism Clinics of North America (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
  • Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) (submittedVersion)
  • Leiden Repository (Leiden University) (submittedVersion)
Funders
  • National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (P30DK050456, R01DK073148, DK050456)
  • National Center for Research Resources (UL1RR024150)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Behavioral Neuroscience › Stress Responses and Cortisol
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism › Adrenal Hormones and Disorders
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Estrogen and related hormone effects
Keywords
hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis, glucocorticoid regulation, aging, sex differences, sex steroids, corticotropin-releasing factor, vasopressin, ACTH, stress adaptation, neuroendocrine regulation, glucocorticoid negative feedback, positive feedback
MeSH terms
Adrenocorticotropic Hormone, Aging, Animals, Corticotropin-Releasing Hormone, Female, Humans, Hydrocortisone, Hypothalamo-Hypophyseal System, Male, Pituitary-Adrenal System, Sex Characteristics, Feedback, Physiological

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