Assessing stress in animal populations: Do fecal and plasma glucocorticoids tell the same story?

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 166, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 614-619

  Sheriff, Michael J ^a,b   Krebs, Charles J ^b   Boonstra, Rudy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bile cortisol metabolites; Corticosteroid binding globulin; Fecal cortisol metabolites; Free cortisol; Hormonal challenge; Non invasive monitoring; Seasonal comparison; Snowshoe hares

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN; DEXAMETHASONE; GLUCOCORTICOID; HYDROCORTISONE;

ANIMAL COMMUNITY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BILE COMPOSITION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTEROID BLOOD LEVEL; FECES COMPOSITION; FEMALE; HARE; HORMONAL REGULATION; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; METABOLIC REGULATION; METABOLITE; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; SEASONAL VARIATION; STRESS;

EID: 77951974936     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygcen.2009.12.017     Document Type: Article

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