[Individual typological characteristics of hormonal responses in dogs during psychoemotional stress].
Effects of psycho-emotional stress on contents of steroid hormones in the blood were studied in dogs with different typological properties of the higher nervous activity. Under stress condition, a significant correlation between the cortisol and testosterone levels and the dogs' typological characteristics was found. The more obvious fluctuations in the hormones level occurred in animals with strong and excitable type of the nervous system as compared with dogs belonging to weak and inert type.
Shaliapina
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I. P. Pavlov Institute of Physiology, Russian Acad. Sci., 199034, St. Petersburg, Nab. Makarova, 6, Russia.
Voĭlokova
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Suvorov
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Rakitskaia
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D000311:Adrenal Glands / Q000378:metabolism; D000818:Animals; D003214:Conditioning, Classical; D004285:Dogs; D005239:Fear; D006613:Higher Nervous Activity; D006854:Hydrocortisone / Q000378:metabolism*; D007206:Individuality; D008297:Male; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000378:metabolism*; D013737:Testis / Q000378:metabolism; D013739:Testosterone / Q000378:metabolism*
D013739:Testosterone; D006854:Hydrocortisone