Techniques for collecting saliva from awake, unrestrained, adult monkeys for cortisol assay

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Noninvasive technique for the repeated sampling of salivary free cortisol in awake, unrestrained squirrel monkeys

✍ S. TIEFENBACHER; B. LEE; J.S. MEYER; R.D. SPEALMAN 📂 Article 📅 2003 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 70 KB

## Abstract The use of noninvasive measures of hypothalamic‐pituitary‐adrenal (HPA) axis function is of growing interest among preclinical and clinical investigators. This report describes a method for the repeated assessment of salivary free cortisol in awake, unrestrained squirrel monkeys (__Saim