Measuring HPA axis activity is the standard approach to the study of stress and welfare in
farm animals. Although the reference technique is the use of blood plasma to measure …

Stressors elicit a complex but variable suite of endocrine events. Comparative studies of the
stress response have focused primarily on the adrenocortical response to stress, in …

Perfluorooctane sulfonic acid (PFOS) accumulates in the liver and blood of exposed
organisms. The potential for these surfactant molecules to interfere with hormone/protein …

Glucocorticoid hormones, acting via nuclear receptors, regulate many metabolic processes,
including hepatic gluconeogenesis. It recently has been recognized that intracellular …

Accelerated telomere shortening in lymphocytes has been associated with a variety of
human pathologies, including HIV disease, Down syndrome, and cardiovascular disease …

It is generally considered that stress causes decreased immune function in fish. In this study
we examined in Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar Linnaeus) the effects of both short-(a single …

10+ Years of Updates Since First EditionNewcomers to the animal clinical chemistry and
toxicology fields quickly find that the same rules of human medicine do not always apply …

Plasma cortisol is largely bound to corticosteroid-binding globulin (CBG), which regulates its
bioavailability by restricting exit from capillaries. Levels of CBG may be altered by several …

Over the past decade, diagnostic evaluation and treatment of horses with pituitary pars
intermedia dysfunction (PPID) have increased dramatically, largely because clients want to …

In humans, testosterone (T), dihydrotestosterone (DHT), estradiol (E2), estrone (E1) and
cortisol (C) bind to the serum proteins sex hormone-binding globulin (SHBG), albumin (Alb) …