Constitutive immune function responds more slowly to handling stress than corticosterone in a shorebird

Physiological and Biochemical Zoology

Volumn 81, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 673-681

  Buehler, Deborah M ^a   Bhola, Nina ^a   Barjaktarov, Daliborka ^b   Goymann, Wolfgang ^c   Schwabl, Ingrid ^c   Tieleman, B Irene ^a   Piersma, Theunis ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM   (Serbia)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR ORNITHOLOGY   (Germany)

^d ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; CORTICOSTERONE;

ANIMAL; BLOOD; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CHARADRIIFORMES; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HEMATOCRIT; IMMUNOLOGY; LEUKOCYTE; METABOLISM; MOTIVATION; NETHERLANDS; NOTE; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TIME;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CHARADRIIFORMES; CORTICOSTERONE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HANDLING (PSYCHOLOGY); HEMATOCRIT; LEUKOCYTES; NETHERLANDS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; TIME FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; CALIDRIS CANUTUS; CANDIDA ALBICANS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 51649085240     PISSN: 15222152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/588591     Document Type: Note

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