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Stress: Ethological Implications.- Short and long term physiological and neurochemical adaptations to social conflict.- Social behavior in the house mouse: a potential model for preclinical studies on stress.- A role for affective neuroscience in understanding stress: the case of separation distress circuitry.- Behavioral effects of manipulations of the olfactory environment in developing mice: involvement of the dopaminergic system.- Order and disorder in the hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenocortical stress activation.- Corticotropin-releasing factor as the mediator of stress responses.- Psychobiology of stress and immune functions.- Neuropeptides and behavioural and physiological stress response: the role of vasopressin and related peptides.- Role of prolactin in stress-induced biological modifications in animals.- Perinatal determinant of the pituitary-adrenal activity in the adult rat.- Counterregulation of stress-induced hyperglycemia by thyrotropin-releasing hormone.- Noradrenergic receptor mechanisms in stress adaptation.- The effects of acute exposure to stressors and drugs grow with the passage of time.- Genotype-dependent adaptation of brain dopamine system to stress.- Adrenocortical and central monoaminergic system responses to different stressful situations in young and senescent rats.- Approaches to stress in man — Present knowledge and future research.- Behaviour in situations of conflict.- Stress and distress from fluorescent lighting.- Psychopathological symptoms after open heart surgery: effects of a major stressor.- Assessing patterns of adjustment to the demands of work.- Environmental stress: effects of air pollution on mood, neuropsychological function and physical state.