Consumption of fire ants may enhance immune functions of lizards
Invasive species being introduced to a non-native environment is a growing and ongoing concern. The impact of these species can...
Personality matters: exploring the relationship between personality and stress physiology in captive African lions
Lions are animals beloved across the world. Unfortunately, at the current rate of habitat loss and poaching, African lions could...
Don’t Stress Out When Measuring Corticosterone
Our DetectX® Corticosterone ELISA Kit has been used on samples from Aardvarks to Whales including serum, plasma, urine, saliva, hair, bone, tissue...
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April 1 – June 30, 2022 10% off all DetectX® Stress and Metabolism Assay Kits Valid on U.S. orders only...
What’s in a Whisker?
WHAT’S IN A SEAL’S WHISKER? WHY? Scientists are always looking for unique ways to obtain non-invasive tissues for physiological analysis...
Flowerpot Method Does Not Induce Stress
FLOWERPOT METHOD DOES NOT INDUCE STRESS Scientists rely heavily upon the flowerpot method of rapid eye movement sleep (REMS) deprivation...
Managing Stress and Anxiety with Diet
HOW DOES DIET REDUCE STRESS? It’s not a secret that diet can be part of an effective strategy for controlling...
Cannabis Use and Stress
Cannabis has long been used for stress reduction, and its anxiolytic and anti-depressive abilities are generally well accepted. However, acute...
Chronic Stress & PTSD
Chronic repeated unpredictable stress induces PTSD in mice… and likely humans, too. Chronic stress can lead to dysregulation of hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA)...
The Power of Non-Invasive Fecal Biomarker Testing
Non-invasive fecal hormone analysis for stress and reproduction assessment in wildlife studies Hormone levels are widely used to measure stress...
Advances in Non-Invasive Hormone Monitoring
Corticosterone & Non-Invasive Sample Types Corticosterone—the most common glucocorticoid in rodent animal models of stress—is easily measured using ELISA techniques....
Dietary Antioxidants: Using Diets to Reduce Stress
Reactive Oxygen Species (ROS) can react with vital macromolecules, damaging biomolecules critical to cellular structure and function. Antioxidants protect biological...