Non-invasive methods to measure androgen metabolites in excrements of European stonechats, Saxicola torquata rubicola

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 129, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 80-87

  Goymann, Wolfgang ^a,c   Möstl, Erich ^b   Gwinner, Eberhard ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR ORNITHOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; SODIUM CHLORIDE; TESTOSTERONE; GONADORELIN; SEX HORMONE;

ANDROGEN SYNTHESIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIRD; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXCRETION; FECES ANALYSIS; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HORMONE DETERMINATION; INJECTION; ISOTOPE LABELING; MALE; METABOLITE; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; SEASONAL VARIATION; TESTOSTERONE METABOLISM; VALIDATION PROCESS; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; FECES; METABOLISM; SEASON; VALIDATION STUDY;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; FECES; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; INJECTIONS; MALE; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; SEASONS; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 0037210804     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0016-6480(02)00520-8     Document Type: Article

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