Seasonal changes in plasma glucocorticosteroids of free-living female yellow-pine chipmunks: Effects of reproduction and capture and handling

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 117, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 189-199

  Kenagy, G J ^a   Place, Ned J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Body mass; Capture and handling effects; Chipmunk; Corticosterone; Cortisol; Field endocrinology; Glucocorticosteroids; Lactati on; Reproduction; Seasonality; Stress; Tamias amoenus

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; GLUCOCORTICOID; HYDROCORTISONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CORTICOSTEROID BLOOD LEVEL; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; HIBERNATION; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; LACTATION; MAMMAL; MATING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; STRESS;

EID: 0033983499     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/gcen.1999.7397     Document Type: Article

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