Immune Redistribution to Skin in Wild and Domesticated Songbirds

Implantation of dental sponges under the skin of lab rodents has been used to evaluate whether acute stress enhances leukocyte infiltration to a surgical site. First, I replicated this technique in house sparrows to test whether transient stressors cause similar immunoredistribution (i.e., movement...

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Main Author: Kuhlman, Joshua Ryan
Format: Others
Published: Scholar Commons 2010
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Online Access:https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/1690
https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2689&context=etd