Beyond Glucocorticoids: Integrating Dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) into Animal Welfare Research
Publication/Journal: Animals
Keywords: animal welfare, cortisol, dehydroepiandrosterone, dehydroepiandrosterone-sulfate, dhea, glucocorticoids, ratio
2020
Circadian Rhythm of Salivary Immunoglobulin A and Associations with Cortisol as A Stress Biomarker in Captive Asian Elephants (Elephas maximus)
Publication/Journal: Animals
Keywords: asian elephant, circadian rhythm, glucocorticoids, immunoglobulin a, welfare
2020
Circulating and Excreted Corticosteroids and Metabolites, Hematological, and Serum Chemistry Parameters in the Killer Whale (Orcinus orca) Before and After a Stress Response
Publication/Journal: Frontiers in Marine Science
Keywords: corticosteorids, endocrinology, feces, killer whale (Orcinus orca), stress
2020
Effects of physiological changes and social life events on adrenal glucocorticoid activity in female zoo-housed Asian elephants (Elephas maximus)
Publication/Journal: PloS one
Keywords: animal sociality, cortisol, elephants, estrous cycle, euthanasia, phase determination, pregnancy, urine
2020
Fecal stress, nutrition and reproductive hormones for monitoring environmental impacts on tigers (Panthera tigris)
Publication/Journal: Conservation Physiology
Keywords: adrenal, conservation physiology, stress-nutrition interplay, thyroid and reproductive hormones assay validation, tigers
2020
Impacts of the season and reproductive status on fecal reproductive and adrenocortical steroid metabolites in zoo Cuban crocodiles (Crocodylus rhombifer)
Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology
Keywords: crocodilians, fecal hormone metabolites, zoo management
2020
Zoo‐housed mammals do not avoid giving birth on weekends
Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology
Keywords: stress response, visitor effect, weekend effect, welfare, zoo visitors
2020
Aggressive behavior and stress response after oxytocin administration in male Norway rats selected for different attitudes to humans
Publication/Journal: Physiology & Behavior
Keywords: aggressive, corticosterone, oxytocin, rats, selection, tame
2019
The physiological significance of the circadian dynamics of the HPA axis: Interplay between circadian rhythms, allostasis and stress resilience
Publication/Journal: Hormones and Behavior
Keywords: allostasis, chronopharmacology, circadian rhythms, glucocorticoids, hpa axis, mathematical modeling, stress resilience
2019
Coping style and cortisol levels in infancy predict hair cortisol following new group formation in captive rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta)
Publication/Journal: American Journal of Primatology
Keywords: glucocorticoids, personality, social instability
2018