Effects of capture on adrenal steroid and vasopressin concentrations in free-ranging bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus)

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 125, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 317-324

  Ortiz, Rudy M ^a   Worthy, Graham A J ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY AT GALVESTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Aldosterone; AVP; Corticosterone; Cortisol; Glucocorticoids; Marine mammals; Stress

Indexed keywords

ALDOSTERONE; ARGIPRESSIN; CORTICOSTEROID; CORTICOSTERONE; CORTICOTROPIN; HYDROCORTISONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTEROID BLOOD LEVEL; DOLPHIN; NONHUMAN; STRESS;

ANIMALIA; CORYPHAENIDAE; MAMMALIA; TURSIOPS TRUNCATUS;

EID: 0034050503     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1095-6433(00)00158-6     Document Type: Article

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