Importance of the glucocorticoid stress response in a changing world: Theory, hypotheses and perspectives

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 190, Issue , 2012, Pages 118-128

  Angelier, Frédéric ^a   Wingfield, John C ^b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Corticosterone; Cortisol; Global change; Perturbations; Physiology; Stress

Indexed keywords

GLUCOCORTICOID; MINERALOCORTICOID RECEPTOR;

ALLOSTASIS; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; COPING BEHAVIOR; CORTICOSTEROID BLOOD LEVEL; EVOLUTION; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; GLOBAL CHANGE; HABITUATION; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; LIFE HISTORY; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR BINDING; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW; SENSITIZATION; STRESS; SURVIVAL RATE; THEORY; VERTEBRATE;

CORTICOSTERONE; CORTISOL; GLOBAL CHANGE; PERTURBATIONS; PHYSIOLOGY; STRESS;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CORTICOSTERONE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HOMEOSTASIS; HYDROCORTISONE;

EID: 84882824081     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygcen.2013.05.022     Document Type: Review

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