Salivary testosterone measurements in growing pigs: Validation of an automated chemiluminescent immunoassay and its possible use as an acute stress marker

Research in Veterinary Science

Volumn 97, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 20-25

  Escribano, D ^a   Fuentes Rubio, M ^a   Ceron J J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MURCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Acute stress; Automated chemiluminescent immunoassay; Pig; Salivary testosterone

Indexed keywords

TESTOSTERONE; BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ACUTE STRESS; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUTOMATED CHEMILUMINESCENT IMMUNOASSAY; AUTOMATION; CHEMOLUMINESCENCE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; FEMALE; GROWTH; HORMONE DETERMINATION; IMMUNOASSAY; IMMUNOASSAY ANALYZER; LIMIT OF DETECTION; MALE; NONHUMAN; SALIVA ANALYSIS; SALIVA LEVEL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SWINE; TIME; VALIDATION STUDY; AGE; ANIMAL; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LUMINESCENCE; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; PIG; PROCEDURES; SALIVA; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VETERINARY;

SUIDAE; SUS;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; FEMALE; IMMUNOASSAY; LUMINESCENT MEASUREMENTS; MALE; SALIVA; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEX FACTORS; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; SUS SCROFA; SWINE; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 84905272266     PISSN: 00345288     EISSN: 15322661     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rvsc.2014.04.001     Document Type: Article

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