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 …

In recent years, the noninvasive monitoring of steroid hormone metabolites in feces of
mammals and drop**s of birds has become an increasingly popular technique. It offers …

Intensive broiler (meat) chicken production now exceeds 800 million birds each year in the
United Kingdom and 2× 1010 birds worldwide, but it attracts accusations of poor welfare …

Fecal glucocorticoid metabolite analyses are increasingly being used by a variety of
scientists (eg, conservation biologists, animal scientists) to examine glucocorticoid (ie, stress …

Rather than construct lists of many different welfare indicators and give each of them the
same weight, I argue that the assessment of animal welfare should be directed at answering …

Dengue fever is a mosquito-borne virus that infects 50–100 million people each year. Of
these infections, 200,000–500,000 occur as the severe, life-threatening form of the disease …

Cook, NJ 2012. Review: Minimally invasive sampling media and the measurement of
corticosteroids as biomarkers of stress in animals. Can. J. Anim. Sci. 92: 227–259. The …

Conservation medicine is a discipline in which researchers and conservationists study and
respond to the dynamic interplay between animals, humans, and the environment. From a …

Measurement of glucocorticoid metabolites in feces has become an accepted method for the
noninvasive evaluation of adrenocortical activity. The objective of this study was to …

Fecal steroid analyses are becoming increasingly popular among both field and laboratory
scientists. The benefits associated with sampling procedures that do not require restraint …