A validation of extraction methods for noninvasive sampling of glucocorticoids in free-living ground squirrels

Physiological and Biochemical Zoology

Volumn 78, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1069-1084

  Mateo, Jill M ^a,b   Cavigelli, Sonia A ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; CORTICOSTERONE; CORTICOTROPIN; DEXAMETHASONE; GLUCOCORTICOID; HYDROCORTISONE;

NONDESTRUCTIVE TESTING;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; BLOOD; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FECES; IMMUNOLOGY; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; REPRODUCIBILITY; REVIEW; SCIURIDAE;

ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES; CORTICOSTERONE; DEXAMETHASONE; FECES; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HYDROCORTISONE; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCIURIDAE; SPECIMEN HANDLING;

ANIMALIA; SCIURIDAE; SPERMOPHILUS; SPERMOPHILUS BELDINGI;

EID: 27744474954     PISSN: 15222152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/432855     Document Type: Review

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