Plasma corticosterone of city and desert Curve-billed Thrashers, Toxostoma curvirostre, in response to stress-related peptide administration

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 159, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 32-38

  Fokidis, H Bobby ^a   Deviche, Pierre ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adrenocorticotropin hormone; Arginine vasotocin; Corticosterone; Corticotropin releasing factor; Dexamethasone; HPA axis

Indexed keywords

ARGIPRESTOCIN; CORTICOSTERONE; CORTICOTROPIN; DEXAMETHASONE; GLUCOCORTICOID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHRONIC STRESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; DESERT; HABITUATION; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; MALE; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NONHUMAN; SONGBIRD; UPREGULATION; URBAN AREA;

AVES; MIMIDAE; PASSERI; TOXOSTOMA CURVIROSTRE;

EID: 79952488733     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: 15314332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2011.01.011     Document Type: Article

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