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The Trier Social Stress Test Protocol for Inducing Psychological Stress
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Cited by 251 •
2011
This article describes a protocol for inducing psychological stress in participants, which enables researchers to measure psychological, physiological and neuroendocrine responses to stress within single participants or between groups.
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Inducing Depression-like Behavior in a Mouse via Immobilization Stress
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2025
This video demonstrates the method of inducing chronic stress in a mouse through repeated immobilization, leading to corticosterone release and reduced glutamate receptor activity in neurons, which results in depression-like behavior.
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A Mouse Model of Subchronic and Mild Social Defeat Stress for Understanding Stress-induced Behavioral and Physiological Deficits
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Cited by 25 •
2015
Here, methods for developing a mouse model of subchronic and mild social defeat stress are described and used to investigate the pathogenic features of depression including hyperphagia- and polydipsia-like symptoms following increased body weight.
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Implantation of a Carotid Cuff for Triggering Shear-stress Induced Atherosclerosis in Mice
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2012
The constricting cuff presented in this article is designed to induce atherosclerosis in the murine common carotid artery. Due to the conical shape of its inner lumen the implanted cuff generates well-defined regions of low, high and oscillatory shear stress triggering the development of atherosclerotic lesions of different inflammatory phenotypes.
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A Standardized Protocol for Inducing Stress-Induced Premature Senescence in Primary Human Melanocytes Using Tert-butyl Hydroperoxide
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2026
A standardized protocol for inducing premature senescence in HNM using tBHP, standardized protocols for analyzing key senescence markers, including growth arrest, SA-β-galactosidase activity, and SASP factors.
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These variables determine how strongly a biological system is perturbed and which outcomes become measurable. A defined dose, duration, and exposure condition allow researchers to relate the challenge to changes in gene expression, metabolism, survival, or adaptation. Careful control of these parameters also helps distinguish stress tolerance from injury or loss of homeostasis.
The approach can expose how cells, tissues, organisms, or model systems regulate gene expression, metabolism, survival, and adaptation after homeostasis is disturbed. Examining these responses shows which biological processes are associated with stress tolerance, injury, or disease. The resulting patterns help connect an external challenge with internal signaling and functional outcomes.
They represent different ways to perturb a biological system, while sharing the need for defined exposure conditions. Chemical challenges can be compared with physical or environmental challenges by examining how each alters gene expression, metabolism, survival, or adaptation. This comparison helps identify responses that reflect a general stress program versus effects associated with a particular type of challenge.
Controlled perturbation links a biological response to a specified challenge rather than to an undefined change in the experimental environment. By fixing the dose, duration, and exposure conditions, researchers can investigate whether the system adapts, tolerates the stress, or shows injury. This makes the treatment useful for studying mechanisms of resilience as well as disease-related damage.
Researchers should specify the biological model, the type of challenge, its dose or intensity, the exposure duration, and the surrounding exposure conditions. They should also identify which responses will indicate altered gene expression, metabolism, survival, or adaptation. These decisions establish a consistent perturbation and determine whether the experiment addresses tolerance, injury, disease, or another biological outcome.
Stress inducer treatments provide a controlled way to examine how biological systems respond to potentially harmful or challenging conditions. In toxicology and drug screening, they can reveal injury-related or survival-associated responses. In environmental assessment, defined challenges help evaluate biological effects under controlled exposure conditions, supporting comparisons among treatments and model systems.