Associate Professor Stephen Bunn
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Research interests
Stephen's major research interest at the Centre for Neuroendocrinology was in the neuroendocrinology of stress.
His research focused on two major areas. First, understanding the complex regulation of the adrenal medullary chromaffin cell, specifically how it regulates its secretory output of catecholamines and peptides in response to multiple stress-activated inputs. A lot of the work was directed at understanding how cytokines interact with this stress response.
The second major interest concerned the role of another cytokine, prolactin, on the stress axis. Specifically, Stephen was interested in how stressors alter prolactin secretion from the pituitary and what role this prolactin then plays in stress adaptation under different physiological states.