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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
1995-6-26
pubmed:abstractText
Plasma endocrine and metabolic responses to transport for 30 minutes and four hours were investigated in six fed donkeys. In the unstressed animals there was a pulsatile secretion of cortisol at two-hour intervals, from minima of 51.4 +/- 17.6 nmol litre-1 to maxima of 160.0 +/- 11.0 nmol litre-1, but during transport this pulsatility was lost and the animals' stress response was characterised by steady high concentrations of 110 to 220 nmol litre-1. The cortisol concentration decreased after the journey and remained at a minimum until the restoration of pulsatile secretion 8.5 to 10.5 hours later. The transport-induced adrenocortical response did not produce any significant changes in the plasma concentrations of triglycerides, cholesterol, glucose, total protein, albumin, globulin or urea. The donkeys' responses to transport for four hours were also investigated after they had been deprived of food for one or three days. Food deprivation alone increased plasma cortisol and triglyceride concentrations, and decreased glucose and insulin concentrations, and transport consistently, and feeding after the journey sometimes, accentuated their adrenocortical function; the changes in cortisol concentrations as a result of the journey tended to be lower than in the fed animals. Transport had no effect upon the triglyceride response to either period of fasting. Hyperglycaemia was induced by transport in four of the six donkeys fasted for one day and in all of them after three days of fasting.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Mar
pubmed:issn
0034-5288
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
58
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
144-51
pubmed:dateRevised
2011-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1995
pubmed:articleTitle
Transport-induced stress responses in fed and fasted donkeys.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Veterinary Clinical Science and Animal Husbandry, University of Liverpool, Neston, South Wirral.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article