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Diurnal variation in corticosterone release among wild tropical forest birds

BACKGROUND: Glucocorticoids are adrenal steroid hormones essential to homeostatic maintenance. Their daily variation at low concentrations regulates physiology and behavior to sustain proper immunological and metabolic function. Glucocorticoids rise well above these baseline levels during stress to...

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Autores principales: Schwabl, Philipp, Bonaccorso, Elisa, Goymann, Wolfgang
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4857432/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27152116
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12983-016-0151-3