Acute Corticosterone Stress Response to Handling in Four Captive Gopher Tortoises (Gopherus polyphemus)

  • Zachariah T
  • Mitchell M
  • Serra V
  • et al.
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Abstract Corticosterone is the primary glucocorticoid hormone produced by reptiles in response to stressful stimuli. Evaluating hormone responses to stress in reptiles relies on acquiring baseline corticosterone levels; however, the stress associated with restraint ...

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Zachariah, T. T., Mitchell, M. A., Serra, V. F., Johnson, M. E., Dickens, M. J., & Romero, L. M. (2009). Acute Corticosterone Stress Response to Handling in Four Captive Gopher Tortoises (Gopherus polyphemus). Journal of Herpetological Medicine and Surgery, 19(2), 50–56. https://doi.org/10.5818/1529-9651.19.2.50

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