The age of hair matters – the incorporation of cortisol by external contamination is enhanced in distal hair segments of pigs and cattle
Hair cortisol concentration (HCC) is used as an indicator of long-term stress or pathologies in humans and increasingly in animals. Although the main mechanism for the incorporation of cortisol into the hair shaft is by diffusion from blood, cortisol may also be incorporated from external sources by...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2022-04-01
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| Series: | Animal |
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| Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1751731122000465 |