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Browsing Research Articles (Anatomy and Physiology) by Subject "ACTH challenge"
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Young, Christopher; Ganswindt, Andre; McFarland, Richard; De Villiers, Charon; Van Heerden, Joritha; Ganswindt, Stefanie Birgit; Barrett, Louise; Henzi, S. Peter
(Elsevier, 2017-11)
The development of non-invasive techniques to analyse physiological stress in mammalian species has revolutionised field-based endocrinology. However, careful validation of the methods used to determine faecal glucocorticoid ...
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Webster, A.B. (Andrea); Burroughs, Richard E.J.; Laver, Peter N.; Ganswindt, Andre
(NISC (Pty) Ltd and Informa UK Limited (trading as Taylor & Francis Group), 2018)
Leopards Panthera pardus are classified in the IUCN Red List as Vulnerable, primarily due to habitat loss, natural prey base depletion and exploitation caused by various anthropogenic activities. Although protected areas ...
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Medger, Katarina; Bennett, Nigel Charles; Lutermann, Heike; Ganswindt, Andre
(Elsevier, 2018-09)
Dominant females of cooperative breeding species often use aggression to suppress reproduction of subordinate females, resulting in subordinates experiencing stress-related increases in glucocorticoid levels, which may ...
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Scheun, Juan; Geiser, Fritz; Ganswindt, Andre; Nowack, Julia
(CSIRO, 2020)
Faecal hormone monitoring offers a robust tool to non-invasively determine the physiological stress experienced by an individual when faced with natural or human-driven stressors. Although already quantified for several ...