Musings on my neverending quest for sugar

Researching drugs (or not)

So, I'm doing research on Web of Science about stress hormone levels in relation to fat stores in birds. And so I'm clicking around the citations to this article that's pretty relevant to my topic, and I find stuff like:

• Effects of antiglucocorticoid RU-486 on development of obesity in obese FA/FA Zucker rats
  
• Increased adrenocorticotropin, cortisol, and arginine vasopressin secretion in primates after the antiglucocorticoid steroid RU-486 - Dose-reponse relationships
  
• The antiglucocorticoid and antiprogestin steroid RU-486 suppresses the adrenocorticotropin response to ovine corticotropin releasing hormone in man

Yes, we seem to be giving rats, "primates", and "man" abortion pills. And the fact that only one of the articles refers to its abortive qualities ("antiprogestin") points to other uses of said drug.

...and I'm not sure how that has to do with stress hormone levels and fat stores in birds...

posted by sugarfiend @ 11:17 PM