Assessment of the stress response in columbian ground squirrels: Laboratory and field validation of an enzyme immunoassay for fecal cortisol metabolites

Physiological and Biochemical Zoology

Volumn 82, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 291-301

  Bosson, Curtis O ^a   Palme, Rupert ^b   Boonstra, Rudy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCLIMATION; ASSESSMENT METHOD; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HORMONE; IMMUNOASSAY; LABORATORY METHOD; METABOLITE; MODEL VALIDATION; RODENT; URINE;

ANIMALIA; SCIURIDAE; SPERMOPHILUS COLUMBIANUS;

HYDROCORTISONE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CHEMISTRY; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; FECES; FEMALE; MALE; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCIURIDAE; TIME; URINE;

ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; FECES; FEMALE; HYDROCORTISONE; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; MALE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCIURIDAE; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 67149118095     PISSN: 15222152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/597530     Document Type: Review

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