Exogenous corticosterone mimics a late fasting stage in captive Adélie penguins (Pygoscelis Adeliae)

American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology

Volumn 300, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Spée, Marion ^a,b   Marchal, Lorène ^a,b   Thierry, Anne Mathilde ^a,b   Chastel, Olivier ^b   Enstipp, Manfred ^a,b   le Maho, Yvon ^a,b   Beaulieu, Michaël ^a,b   Raclot, Thierry ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Glucocorticoid; Locomotor activity; Long lived seabird; Long term fasting

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; PROLACTIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIRD; BLOOD SAMPLING; BREEDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET RESTRICTION; EGG; FEMALE; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HORMONAL REGULATION; LOCOMOTION; MALE; METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; PENGUIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROLACTIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PYGOSCELIS ADELIAE; REFEEDING;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BLOOD GLUCOSE; BODY WEIGHT; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CORTICOSTERONE; DRUG IMPLANTS; ENERGY METABOLISM; FASTING; FATTY ACIDS, NONESTERIFIED; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PROLACTIN; SPHENISCIDAE; TIME FACTORS; URIC ACID;

EID: 79955776789     PISSN: 03636119     EISSN: 15221490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00762.2010     Document Type: Article

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