Stress and susceptibility to viral infection. I. Response of adrenals, liver, thymus, spleen and peripheral leukocyte counts to sound stress.

Abstract

Daily 3-hr exposures to high intensity sound induced adrenal hypertrophy in mice. Peripheral leukocyte counts responded biphasically to this stressor, exhibiting a leukopenia during and a leukocytosis following the stress period on each day. Leukopenia was not seen in stressed-adrenalectomized animals.