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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
6
pubmed:dateCreated
1981-10-25
pubmed:abstractText
Circulating levels of corticosterone were determined in chick embryos from 10 to 21 days of incubation using eggs from a Leghorn breeder flock. In Experiment 1, eggs were incubated from 10 to 20 days for daily embryonic blood collection. To verify stage of development with day of incubation, embryo right middle toe lengths were measured concurrent with blood sampling. Serum from three embryos was pooled into one sample and the corticosterone content of 10 samples per day of incubation was determined using a radioimmunoassay procedure. The levels of corticosterone from day 10 to 14 fluctuated slightly and then increased rapidly until 16 days of incubation. At this time serum corticosterone remained relatively constant through day 18 with an apparent increasing trend up to day 20. The use of toe lengths to assure no day-to-day overlap in embryonic development proved effective. In Experiment 2, newly hatched (day 21) chicks were sorted into four 3-hr periods ranging from early to late hatching. Blood samples were collected from five individual chicks during four 15-min sampling periods for each of the four hatch times. Serum corticosterone levels were not affected by sampling periods or hatch times.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jun
pubmed:issn
0032-5791
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
60
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1314-20
pubmed:dateRevised
2003-11-14
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1981
pubmed:articleTitle
Circulating levels of corticosterone in the serum of developing chick embryos and newly hatched chicks.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article