Repeated Restraint and Sampling Results in Reduced Corticosterone Levels in Developing and Adult Captive American Kestrels (Falco sparverius)

Physiological and Biochemical Zoology

Volumn 76, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 753-761

  Love, Oliver P ^a,d   Shutt, Laird J ^b   Silfies, Joel S ^c   Bird, David M ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^d SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; BIRD; BLOOD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EXERCISE; NOTE; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; TIME;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BIRDS; CORTICOSTERONE; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; RESTRAINT, PHYSICAL; TIME FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; AVES; FALCO; FALCO SPARVERIUS;

EID: 0346305112     PISSN: 15222152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/376431     Document Type: Note

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