Fecal dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) immunoreactivity as a noninvasive index of circulating DHEA activity in young male laboratory rats

Comparative Medicine

Volumn 60, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 455-460

  Bardi, Massimo ^a   Hampton, Joseph E ^a   Lambert, Kelly G ^b  

^a MARSHALL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RANDOLPH MACON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; PRASTERONE;

ADOLESCENT; ADRENAL FUNCTION; ADRENAL GLAND; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; COPING BEHAVIOR; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EXPERIMENTAL ANIMAL; FECES LEVEL; FORCED SWIMMING TEST; HORMONE ACTION; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; METABOLITE; NONHUMAN; RAT; STRESS;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CORTICOSTERONE; DEHYDROEPIANDROSTERONE; FECES; MALE; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; SWIMMING;

EID: 79751505603     PISSN: 15320820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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