Talk:Hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis
From Academic Kids
I rounded out this article with a start on anatomy and function, but am stalled for the moment on specific methods of action for ANS-induced adrenal releases from the adrenal medulla and how they relate to corticosteroid releases from the adrenal cortex mediated by CRF/ACTH.
This is the sort of writing where a well-informed editor might do a lot of good by just reading, correcting, commenting and suggesting direction. Of course there is a lot of detail to be added as well, about the anatomy, function and study of the HPA Axis, and about its role in physical and psychiatric diseases.
I've seen a couple notes of writers intending to work on this, but it's a tough subject to get exactly right in every detail, and can take a bit of meticulous checking. But it is an important topic for many reasons, and it gets front-page listing from Google searches, so this is an open call for any contribution to this topic anyone might have to offer. SoCal 20:29, 15 Feb 2004 (UTC)
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I don't beleive this is accurate. The language seems scientific enough, but it seems like vague stabs with no real explanation of how this thing operates. And the 5HT research is only one of thousands of studies - this isn't a news service its an encyclopedia and I haven't seen anybody here qualified to say that research warrants mention in an encyclopedia, and there is certainly no evidence that it is anything but a study somebody published and it deals with interesting subjects that can be related to interesting world events. The entire Wikipedia approach to the subject of stress is laced with generalizations and vague snippets of anatomy that tend to suggest ideas familiarized by the popular press. There is no specific pathway described here to explain the activation of the HPA axis, or how one part of it gives way to another, or if it even really does correlate with any part of that general adaptation responses. I wrote it and I would rather see it reduced to the stub it was before I started using it as a note page. User:172.196.16.3 (contribs (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Special:Contributions&target=172.196.16.3)) (Apparently User:Bird)
User:SoCal wrote much of the text you removed. I've no reason to believe that user did anything wrong. Jamesday 21:13, 9 Mar 2004 (UTC)
from the article:
- (Svante Winberg, Olof Tottmar, Per-Ove Thörnqvist, Olivier Lepage, Joachim Schjolden for Department of Comparative Physiology - Uppsala University, Norbyvägen, Uppsala, Sweden)
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