Changes in adrenal capacity contribute to a decline in the stress response with age in a long-lived seabird

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 156, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 564-568

  Heidinger, Britt J ^a   Nisbet, Ian C T ^b   Ketterson, Ellen D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b ICT Nisbet and Company   (United States)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Age; Birds; Corticosterone; Hypothalamic pituitary adrenal axis; Life history; Stress response

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN; GLUCOCORTICOID; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ADRENAL CORTEX; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BREEDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HORMONAL REGULATION; HORMONE RELEASE; HORMONE RESPONSE; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; SEABIRD; STRESS; SURVIVAL; VERTEBRATE;

EID: 42649101641     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygcen.2008.02.014     Document Type: Article

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