Long-term monitoring of fecal steroid hormones in female snow leopards (panthera uncia) during pregnancy or pseudopregnancy

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Kinoshita, Kodzue ^a   Inada, Sayaka ^a   Seki, Kazuya ^b   Sasaki, Aiko ^c   Hama, Natsuki ^b,d   Kusunoki, Hiroshi ^a  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Kobe Municipal Oji Zoo   (Japan)

^c Tama Zoological Park   (Japan)

^d KOBE INSTITUTE OF HEALTH   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; HYDROCORTISONE; PROGESTERONE; STEROID HORMONE; STEROID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; BREEDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; FECES ANALYSIS; FELIDAE; FEMALE; HORMONE RELEASE; HOUSING; MALE; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY; PSEUDOPREGNANCY; ANIMAL; FECES; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; TIME;

ANIMALIA; UNCIA UNCIA;

ANIMALS; ESTRADIOL; FECES; FELIDAE; FEMALE; HYDROCORTISONE; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; MALE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, ANIMAL; PSEUDOPREGNANCY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; STEROIDS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 79955749542     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0019314     Document Type: Article

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