Seasonal glucocorticoid responses to capture in wild free-living mammals

American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology

Volumn 294, Issue 2, 2008, Pages

  Romero, L Michael ^a   Meister, Cecile J ^b   Cyr, Nicole E ^a   Kenagy, G J ^b   Wingfield, John C ^b  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Corticosterone; Corticosterone binding globulin; Cortisol; Season; Stress

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; GLUCOCORTICOID; HYDROCORTISONE; TRANSCORTIN;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HYDROCORTISONE RELEASE; LEMMING; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SQUIRREL; STRESS;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; ARVICOLINAE; CARRIER PROTEINS; CORTICOSTERONE; FEMALE; HANDLING (PSYCHOLOGY); HYDROCORTISONE; MALE; SCIURIDAE; SEASONS; STRESS;

EID: 38949181545     PISSN: 03636119     EISSN: 15221490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00752.2007     Document Type: Article

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