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PEERJ
卷 5, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
PEERJ INC
DOI: 10.7717/peerj.3648
关键词
Stress; Cortisol concentration; Lag time; Golden snub-nosed monkeys
资金
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [31670397]
- National Key Technology R & D Program of China [2013BAD03B03, 2016YFC0503200]
Cortisol concentration (CC) is often used as a stress indicator in animals, as high CC sassociated with elevated stress levels. During field research, non-invasive methods of measuringCC, such as collection of urine and feces, are superior to using blood samples when monitoring free-ranging animals' stress levels. However, due to different metabolic pathways, whether CC can be detected in urine and feces to reliably assess stress varies across species. Therefore, it is important to ascertainwhetherurine and fecal samples are a reliable source for determining CCs and to determine a suitable sampling regime. In this study, we subjected three captive adult golden snub-nosed monkeys (Rhinopithecus roxellana),to a high-stress situation (capture and injection). Urine and feces were collected for four days before and for four days after the manipulations for laboratory analysis. Immunoreactive CCwas detected with a commercial enzyme immunoassay (EIA) kit and showed distinct rises. Peak CC values in urine were detected within 5 h, while peak fecal CC ranged between 5 and 24 hours post-interference. These results provide evidence that CC in urine and feces can be used to assess stress levels in the golden snub-nosed monkey. The optimal time frame to collect urinary and fecal samples for CC analysis is within one day of a potential stressful event.
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