Comparison of hair steroid levels among Wistar rats exposed to different environmental enrichment settings
Alberto Elmi, Niccolò I Vannetti, Viola Galligioni, Nadia Govoni, Camilla Aniballi, José M Sánchez-Morgado, Maria L Bacci, Domenico Ventrella · 2024
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Alberto Elmi and co-authors test in 2024 whether richer cages change stress hormones in lab rats, using hair as the record. Hair stores hormones over months and needs no blood draw. Twenty Wistar rats lived for three months with either a standard tunnel or an extra hanging tunnel as well.
Two hormones, corticosterone and DHEA, could be measured in the hair; cortisol could not. After three months the two housing groups showed no overall difference. Females carried higher levels of all steroids than males, and males in the richer cages had higher corticosterone. The authors say bigger studies are needed to set normal ranges for hair hormones in rats.
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| CREATOR | Alberto Elmi, Niccolò I Vannetti, Viola Galligioni, Nadia Govoni, Camilla Aniballi, José M Sánchez-Morgado, Maria L Bacci, Domenico Ventrella |
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| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 19 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |