Individual typological characteristics of hormonal responses in dogs during psychoemotional stress
Shaliapina, V.G.; Voĭlokova, N.L.; Suvorov, N.F.; Rakitskaia, V.V.
Rossiiskii Fiziologicheskii Zhurnal Imeni I.M. Sechenova 87(7): 926-932
2001
ISSN/ISBN: 0869-8139 PMID: 11575126 Document Number: 527537
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.