Effect of a synthetic appeasing pheromone on behavioral, neuroendocrine, immune, and acute-phase perioperative stress responses in dogs

Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association

Volumn 237, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 673-681

  Siracusa, Carlo ^a,c   Manteca, Xavier ^a   Cuenca, Rafaela ^a   Del Mar Alcalá, Maria ^b   Alba, Aurora ^b   Lavín, Santiago ^a   Pastor, Josep ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b Centre d'Atenció d'Animals Domèstics de Companyia del Maresme   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROCORTISONE; PHEROMONE; PROLACTIN; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL;

ACUTE PHASE RESPONSE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BLOOD; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOG; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HYSTERECTOMY; MALE; ORCHIECTOMY; OVARIECTOMY; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; DRUG EFFECTS; PSYCHOLOGY; VETERINARY;

ACUTE-PHASE REACTION; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BLOOD GLUCOSE; DOGS; FEMALE; HYDROCORTISONE; HYSTERECTOMY; MALE; ORCHIECTOMY; OVARIECTOMY; PHEROMONES; PROLACTIN; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL;

ANIMALIA; CANIS FAMILIARIS;

EID: 77957998331     PISSN: 00031488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2460/javma.237.6.673     Document Type: Article

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