Noninvasive corticosterone treatment rapidly increases activity in gambel's white-crowned sparrows (Zonotrichia leucophrys gambelii)

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 111, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 386-394

  Breuner, Creagh W ^a   Greenberg, Allison L ^b   Wingfield, John C ^b  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARACHIS OIL; CORTICOSTERONE; DIMETHYL SULFOXIDE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIRD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; HORMONAL THERAPY; HORMONE ACTION; LOCOMOTION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PHOTOPERIODICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; STRESS;

ZONOTRICHIA LEUCOPHRYS;

EID: 0031853688     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/gcen.1998.7128     Document Type: Article

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