nutritional & health status part ii
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FIELD BIOLOGY & METHODOLOGY Fall 2013 Althoff. Lecture 18. Nutritional & Health Status Part II. Feather “time”. Adrenal glands. Assessing Health/Stress Levels. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Adrenal glands Feather “time”
FIELD BIOLOGY & METHODOLOGYFall 2015 Althoff
Lecture
18
Nutritional & Health StatusPart II
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Assessing Health/Stress Levels
• Two basic approaches:
1) assess _________________ (invasive)
2) assess from _______________
(non-invasive)
1
2
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______________ – Basic Anatomy & Function
• Located on the anterior end of the kidneys
• Cortex (outer layer) and Medulla (inner layer)
• Controlled by input from the hypothalamus
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Adrenal CORTEXAdrenal MEDULLA
HYPOTHALAMUS
Anterior p
ituita
ry
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• GLUCOCORTICOIDS --protein & fat metabolism instead of glucose breakdown --immune cells are suppressed
• MINERALOCORTICOIDS--Na+ and H20 are
reabsorbed by kidneys--Blood volume and
pressure increase
HYPOTHALAMUS ? Adrenal Glands
ADRENAL”___________” RESPONSE
• Heartbeat & blood pressure increase
• Blood glucose level rises
• Muscles become energized
ADRENAL MEDULLASHORT TERM
ADRENAL CORTEXLONG TERM
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Adrenal Glands
• Respond to stress big time!• Adrenal cortex & adrenal medulla have ____
“interaction”• Controlled by ____________________• Hypothalamus > Adrenal medulla
communication via sympathetic fibers (i.e., nervous system “communication”)
• Hypothalamus > Anterior Pituitary > Adrenal cortex via blood stream
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________________ Levels Indicator of __________ level
• Glucocorticoid metaobolites used ___________ adrenocortical activity
• Some started with collecting feces/pellets produced by wild animals (usually ungulates)….now a move to do some analysis of feces from captive animals to determine types of variation = __________________
• One recommendation—”__________” pellets as “not all pellets are uniform” from a pellet group
• Again shows promise as a ____________…plus big advantage that it is ______________.
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Ptilochronlogy
• “___________________” is translation for Ptilochronology
• Idea and most extensive work in investigation “feather time” done by Thomas Grubb (now retired Ohio State professor)
• First conception of it: 1987
• Basically: faint series of regularly ___________ _______________________ oriented almost ________________to the shaft (rachis) of the feather
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Ptilochronlogy…background
• Fairly common knowledge: bird will _________ a feather to replace a lost one
• Feather regeneration requires __________ and ______________
• If such energy and nutrients are in ___________, then the feather will likely grow more ________
• By measuring the _________________, one has an index to the energy and nutrients available for feather growth
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Ptilochronlogy…some more “theory”
• If one removes an original feather (and obviously knows when they removed it), one knows the time interval in which the replacement was grown
• One can obtain an index of nutritional effects of any particular environmental condition one measures while the feather is being grown
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Ptilochronlogy… some ________________• Evaluate habitat quality
• Nutritional consequences of self-cached foods
• Social behavior
• Individual quality
• Reproductive effort
• Nesting condition