Changes in cortisol release and heart rate and heart rate variability during the initial training of 3-year-old sport horses

Hormones and Behavior

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 628-636

  Schmidt, Alice ^a,b   Aurich, Jörg ^b   Möstl, Erich ^b   Müller, Jürgen ^a   Aurich, Christine ^a,b  

^a Graf Lehndorff Institute for Equine Science   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

Author keywords

Cortisol; Heart rate variability; Horse; Initial training

Indexed keywords

HYDROCORTISONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GEOMETRY; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HYDROCORTISONE RELEASE; MALE; MARE; NONHUMAN; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; RR INTERVAL; SALIVA LEVEL; STALLION; TRAINING;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HORSES; HYDROCORTISONE; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; PHYSICAL CONDITIONING, ANIMAL; SALIVA; SPORTS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 77956283362     PISSN: 0018506X     EISSN: 10956867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2010.06.011     Document Type: Article

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