Urinary C-Peptide of Insulin as a Non-Invasive Marker of Nutritional Status: Some Practicalities

Nutritional status is a critical element of many aspects of animal ecology, but has proven difficult to measure non-invasively in studies of free-ranging animals. Urinary C-peptide of insulin (UCP), a small polypeptide cleaved in an equimolar ratio from proinsulin when the body converts it to insuli...

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Autores principales: Higham, James P., Girard-Buttoz, Cédric, Engelhardt, Antje, Heistermann, Michael
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2011
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3142156/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21799844
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0022398

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3142156/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21799844
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0022398

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