Effects of corticosterone treatment on growth, development, and the corticosterone response to handling in young Japanese quail (Coturnix coturnix japonica)

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 148, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 531-543

  Hull, K L ^b,c   Cockrem, J F ^a   Bridges, J P ^a   Candy, E J ^a   Davidson, C M ^a  

^a MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^b BISHOP'S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Sherbrooke   (Canada)

Author keywords

Birds; Growth; Handling; Hypothalamo pituitary adrenal axis; Stress

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; COTURNIX COTURNIX JAPONICA; DEVELOPMENT; DRUG MEGADOSE; FEMALE; FLUID INTAKE; GROWTH; HORMONAL THERAPY; HORMONE RESPONSE; LIPID STORAGE; LIVER; LOW DRUG DOSE; MALE; MUSCLE; NONHUMAN; OVIDUCT; QUAIL; SPLEEN; STRESS; TESTIS; THYMUS;

AVES; COTURNIX JAPONICA; PHASIANIDAE;

EID: 34748892414     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: 15314332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2007.06.423     Document Type: Article

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