articles about cortisol

Results suggested that farrowing pens with temporary crating facilitated mother-young interactions and showed a higher crushing rate.

Preliminary results displayed a great potential for disease detection and characterization using salivary biomarkers profiling.

Provision of environmental enrichment and herbal compounds may reduce stress in current commercial pig husbandry systems.

Insulin, acylated ghrelin and cortisol could be used as biomarkers to detect situations resulting in a poor energy balance in order to improve handling programs.

The collection of multiple saliva samples does not affect salivary cortisol concentrations in grower pigs.

These observations strengthen the hypothesis that selection for high meat production level might be associated with an increased susceptibility of animals to environmental stressors.

Magnesium supplementation my improve pig welfare.

Maternal conditions during gestation and pre-birth environment may affect further growth rate in newborn pigs.

The effects of continuing spatial restraint were examined in domestic pigs. For this purpose, the animals (German Landrace barrows) were housed individually in metabolic cages (12 animals) and, as controls, in single pens (six animals).

Salivary cortisol (a stress hormone) is an outcome measure that can be used along with health, behaviour, and productivity. Saliva sampling has the potential to be a relatively non-invasive method of determining cortisol concentration. However, techniques have not yet been validated or standardized for use in grower-finisher pigs. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect that different sampling regimens have on salivary cortisol concentration.

This study evaluated the difference between the levels of cortisol in the plasma of piglets under stress (simulated castration) or in pain (castration), under controlled conditions.

Dietary herb supplementation may reduce periparturition stress in sows