Individual variation in cortisol responses to acute [`]on-back’ restraint in an outbred hamster

An outbred species of dwarf hamster (Phodopus campbelli) was used to assess between-individual variability in the response to, and recovery from, a one-time stressor of 6 min of physical restraint in a subordinate, on-back, position. Four repeated plasma samples were drawn under home-cage isoflurane anesthesia from 33 males and 38 females 50 min before, and then 10, […]