Fecal glucocorticoids document stress in female barbary macaques (Macaca sylvanus)

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 113, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 80-86

  Wallner, Bernard ^a   Möstl, Erich ^b   Dittami, John ^a   Prossinger, Hermann ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; FECES; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT FUNCTION; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HORMONE RESPONSE; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRESS;

MACACA SYLVANUS;

EID: 0344718443     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/gcen.1998.7183     Document Type: Article

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