Urinary C-peptide measurement as a marker of nutritional status in macaques

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Girard Buttoz, Cédric ^a,b   Higham, James P ^c   Heistermann, Michael ^a   Wedegärtner, Stefan ^a   Maestripieri, Dario ^c   Engelhardt, Antje ^a,b  

^a GERMAN PRIMATE CENTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C PEPTIDE; BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY CONSTITUTION; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET RESTRICTION; FEMALE; MACACA FASCICULARIS; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN URINE LEVEL; RELIABILITY; SKINFOLD THICKNESS; WEIGHT CHANGE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL HOUSING; BLOOD; DIET; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; MACACA; PHYSIOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; URINE;

ANIMALIA; HOMINIDAE; MACACA; MAMMALIA; PRIMATES;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY WEIGHT; C-PEPTIDE; DIET; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HOUSING, ANIMAL; MACACA; MALE; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; SKINFOLD THICKNESS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 79953328350     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0018042     Document Type: Article

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