Mediating free glucocorticoid levels in the blood of vertebrates: Are corticosteroid-binding proteins always necessary?

Functional Ecology

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 107-119

  Desantis, Lanna M ^a   Delehanty, Brendan ^a   Weir, Jason T ^a   Boonstra, Rudy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Chronic stress; Corticosteroid binding globulin; Field endocrinology; Flying squirrels; Free hormone hypothesis; Glaucomys; Glucocorticoid receptors; Stress axis; Stress physiology

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC RESEARCH; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; HORMONE; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; PROTEIN; SPECIES DIVERSITY; VERTEBRATE;

CANADA; ONTARIO [CANADA];

GLAUCOMYS; GLAUCOMYS SABRINUS; GLAUCOMYS VOLANS; PISCES; PLATYRRHINI; PTEROMYINI; SCIURIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84873091671     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: 13652435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2435.12038     Document Type: Article

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