The immediate effects of stress on hormones and plasma lysozyme in rainbow trout.
The fight-or-flight response prepares an animal for coping with alarming situations and their potential consequences, which include injury. The possible involvement of innate components of immunity in the response has received little attention. We determined plasma concentrations of stress hormones and lysozyme activity before and after a 10 min handling stressor. Rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) were anesthetized in their home tanks, bled, revived, and then stressed by being held in the air in a net for 30 s and placed in a shallow bucket of water for 10 min. Fish were then captured, concussed (in one of two experiments) and bled again. Control fish were also bled twice, but were kept anesthetized in their holding tanksFreshman left handed pitcher Kent Emanuel rose to the occasion on Sunday after the Tar Heels had already lost the series against the 20th ranked Miami Hurricanes. The Canes stacked their lineup with right handed batters but to no avail as the Woodstock Georgia product spotted his fastball and put away batters with a nasty plus cutter.

In my opinion if Emanuel is able to get his curveball working or develops a hard breaking pitch like a slider he will leave Chapel Hill in two more years a multi-millionaire.edited by MClements on 4/24/2011]]>Sun, 24 Apr 2011 14:05:45 GMT