Corticosterone secretion in response to capture and handling in free- living red-eared slider turtles

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 108, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 427-433

  Cash, William B ^a,b   Holberton, Rebecca L ^a   Knight, Scott S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

^b USDA ARS NATIONAL SEDIMENTATION LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Corticosterone; Glucocorticoid; Reptiles; Stress response; Trachemys scripta; Turtles

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE;

ARTICLE; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; CORTICOSTERONE RELEASE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRESS; TURTLE;

EID: 0031451265     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/gcen.1997.6999     Document Type: Article

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