The biology of animal stress : basic principles and implications for animal welfare /
This book brings together a range of scientific perspectives from biomedical research on stress and welfare, and assesses new approaches to conceptualizing and alleviating stress. While much of the focus in on conventional farm animals, there is also consideration of fishes, laboratory animals and z...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Wallingford, UK ; New York, NY, USA :
CABI Pub.,
©2000.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Contributors; Preface; 1 Biological Response to Stress: Implications for Animal Welfare; 2 Some Issues in the Interpretation of Behavioural Responses to Stress; 3 Neuroendocrine Responses to Stress; 4 The Metabolic Consequences of Stress: Targets for Stress and Priorities of Nutrient Use; 5 Immune System Response to Stress; 6 Hands-on and Hands-off Measurement of Stress; 7 Accumulation and Long-term Effects of Stress in Fish; 8 Chronic Intermittent Stress: A Model for the Study of Long-term Stressors; 9 Quantifying Some Responses to Pain as a Stressor.