... increment in CORT and H/L, and a decrease in BCI during laboratory experiments, compared with baseline values at capture. The performance was not related to the CORT or the repeated blood sampling. The BCI decreased, possibly due to energy reserve mobilization caused by acute stress. This study shows...

.... 40 , 342 - 347 . 10.1111/j.1600-048X.2008.04623.x Davies , S. , Rodriguez , N. S. , Sweazea , K. L. and Deviche , P. ( 2013 ). The effect of acute stress and long-term corticosteroid administration on plasma metabolites in an urban and desert songbird . Physiol. Biochem...

... in broiler chicken ( Maxwell and Robertson, 1998 ), cattle ( Bradley et al., 1981 ) and salmonid fishes ( Poppe et al., 2007 ). Causes leading to the development of cardiac disease and abnormalities in production animals are poorly understood, although acute stress has been suggested to trigger cardiac...