Noninvasive fecal monitoring of glucocorticoids in spotted hyenas, Crocuta crocuta

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 114, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 340-348

  Goymann, Wolfgang ^a   Möstl, Erich ^b   Van'T Hof, Thomas ^c   East, Marion L ^a,d   Hofer, Heribert ^a,d  

^a Univ Zurich Max Planck Inst F V   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

^c Forschungsstelle fur Ornithologie   (Germany)

^d LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR ZOO AND WILDLIFE RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

ACTH challenge; Aggression; Corticosterone; Cortisol; Enzyme immunoassay; Feces; Noninvasive method; Stress; Translocation

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; CORTICOTROPIN; GLUCOCORTICOID; HYDROCORTISONE; TETRACOSACTIDE ZINC PHOSPHATE;

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; STRESS;

EID: 0344758297     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/gcen.1999.7268     Document Type: Article

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