Corticosterone exposure during development has sustained but not lifelong effects on body size and total and free corticosterone responses in the zebra finch

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 196, Issue , 2014, Pages 123-129

  Crino, O L ^a,b   Driscoll, Stephanie C ^b   Breuner, C W ^b  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

Author keywords

Body size; Brood size; Corticosterone; Developmental stress; Nestling; Passerine

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; TRANSCORTIN;

ACUTE STRESS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY CONSTITUTION; BODY SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; FEMALE; GROWTH RATE; HORMONE RESPONSE; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; MALE; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NESTLING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TAENIOPYGIA GUTTATA;

BODY SIZE; BROOD SIZE; CBG; CORT; CORTICOSTEROID BINDING GLOBULIN; CORTICOSTERONE; DEVELOPMENTAL STRESS; EPC; EXTRA PAIR COPULATION; GC; GLUCOCORTICOID; HPA; HYPOTHALAMIC PITUITARY ADRENAL; NESTLING; PASSERINE;

ANIMALS; BODY SIZE; CORTICOSTERONE; NESTING BEHAVIOR; SONGBIRDS; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; TIME FACTORS; TRANSCORTIN;

EID: 84890840725     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygcen.2013.10.006     Document Type: Article

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