Chronic stress often affects growth and development negatively and these effects are often mediated via glucocorticoid hormones, which elevate during stress. We investigated latitudinal variation in c
BackgroundIncreasing evidences indicate that systemic inflammation plays a significant role of adverse prognosis in patients with coronary heart disease (CHD). The inflammatory burden index (IBI) is a
Measures of glucocorticoid stress hormones (e.g. cortisol) have often been used to characterize conflict between subordinates and dominants. In cooperative breeders where subordinates seldom breed in
Least square means (± SEM) of hair cortisol, scrotal temperature (SCT), rectal temperature (Temp), white blood cell count (WBC) and weight (initial BW, final BW and ADG) of weaned Angus crossbred calv
