Measurements of Salivary Alpha Amylase and Salivary Cortisol in Hominoid Primates Reveal Within-Species Consistency and Between-Species Differences

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Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Behringer, Verena ^a   Borchers, Claudia ^a   Deschner, Tobias ^a   Möstl, Erich ^b   Selzer, Dieter ^c   Hohmann, Gottfried ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

^c JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA AMYLASE SALIVA ISOENZYME; HYDROCORTISONE;

AGE; APE; ARTICLE; CHIMPANZEE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIETARY INTAKE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ASSAY; FEMALE; GENE DOSAGE; GORILLA; MALE; NONHUMAN; ORANG UTAN; PRIMATE; SALIVA ANALYSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL STRESS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

AGING; ANIMALS; FEMALE; HYDROCORTISONE; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; PRIMATES; SALIVA; SALIVARY ALPHA-AMYLASES; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

HOMINOIDEA; HOMO; PAN; PONGO PYGMAEUS; PRIMATES;

EID: 84876258601     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0060773     Document Type: Article

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