Non-invasive measurement of glucocorticoids: Advances and problems

R Palme - Physiology & behavior, 2019 - Elsevier
Glucocorticoids (GCs; ie cortisol/corticosterone) are a central component of the stress
response and thus their measurement is frequently used to evaluate the impact of stressful …

Measuring stress in wildlife: techniques for quantifying glucocorticoids

MJ Sheriff, B Dantzer, B Delehanty, R Palme… - Oecologia, 2011 - Springer
Stress responses play a key role in allowing animals to cope with change and challenge in
the face of both environmental certainty and uncertainty. Measurement of glucocorticoid …

Common myths of glucocorticoid function in ecology and conservation

LM Romero, UK Beattie - Journal of Experimental Zoology Part …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Glucocorticoids are popular hormones to measure in both biomedical and ecological studies
of stress. Many assumptions used to interpret glucocorticoid results are derived from …

[PDF][PDF] Measures of physiological stress: a transparent or opaque window into the status, management and conservation of species?

B Dantzer, QE Fletcher, R Boonstra… - Conservation …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Conservation physiology proposes that measures of physiological stress (glucocorticoid
levels) can be used to assess the status and future fate of natural populations. Increases in …

Reality as the leading cause of stress: rethinking the impact of chronic stress in nature

R Boonstra - Functional Ecology, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Chronic activation of the stress axis caused by long‐term uncontrollable and unpredictable
factors in the environment has been regarded as causing maladaptive and/or pathological …

The concept of allostasis in biology and biomedicine

BS McEwen, JC Wingfield - Hormones and behavior, 2003 - Elsevier
Living organisms have regular patterns and routines that involve obtaining food and carrying
out life history stages such as breeding, migrating, molting, and hibernating. The acquisition …

A consensus endocrine profile for chronically stressed wild animals does not exist

MJ Dickens, LM Romero - General and comparative endocrinology, 2013 - Elsevier
Given the connection between chronic stress and health, there has been a growing
emphasis on identifying chronically stressed wild animals, especially in relation to …

The ecology of stress: effects of the social environment

S Creel, B Dantzer, W Goymann… - Functional …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Many aspects of the social environment affect hypothalamic‐pituitary‐adrenal (HPA) axis
function and increase circulating glucocorticoid concentrations. In this review, we examine …

The reactive scope model—a new model integrating homeostasis, allostasis, and stress

LM Romero, MJ Dickens, NE Cyr - Hormones and behavior, 2009 - Elsevier
Allostasis, the concept of maintaining stability through change, has been proposed as a term
and a model to replace the ambiguous term of stress, the concept of adequately or …

Stress indicators in fish

NM Sopinka, MR Donaldson, CM O'Connor, CD Suski… - Fish physiology, 2016 - Elsevier
1. Why Do We Measure Stress? 2. Quantifying Stress 3. Specific Measures of Fish Stress
3.1. Cellular and Molecular Indicators 3.2. Primary and Secondary Physiological Indicators …