Adrenal sensitivity to stress is maintained despite variation in baseline glucocorticoids in moulting seals | Zendy

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Adrenal sensitivity to stress is maintained despite variation in baseline glucocorticoids in moulting seals

Author(s) -

Cory D. Champagne,

Michael S. Tift,

Dorian S. Houser,

Daniel E. Crocker

Publication year - 2015

Publication title -

conservation physiology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.942

H-Index - 37

ISSN - 2051-1434

DOI - 10.1093/conphys/cov004

Subject(s) - medicine , endocrinology , biology , glucocorticoid , hormone , moulting , corticosterone , chronic stress , stressor , aldosterone , physiology , ecology , larva , neuroscience

Select hormones, like glucocorticoids, could be informative markers of stress in animals. To be useful, however, baseline and stressed state hormone concentrations must be described. We therefore evaluated the timing and magnitude of stress hormone release by simulating an acute stressor in a marine mammal, the northern elephant seal.

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