Blood characteristics of zebra finches following exposure to artificial light at night
bibliographic citation: Dominoni, D. (2024). Blood characteristics of zebra finches following exposure to artificial light at night. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre. https://doi.org/10.5285/55f10059-82c0-4216-a004-e6d690d628e1
description: This dataset contains measurements of four physiological parameters measured in blood samples collected from zebra finches held in indoor cages over a period of 4 months. We measured four parameters: glucose concentration, non-enzymatic anti-oxidant capacity, lipid peroxidation and relative telomere length. Zebra finches were held in groups separated into three different treatments: a control group where birds were held under natural light-dark cycles, a group where birds were exposed to dim artificial light at night during the entire night (FLAN) and a group where birds where partially exposed to artificial light at night, between dusk and midnight (PLAN). Samples were taken at the start, mid-term, and end of the experiment.
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  label: After collection, one drop of blood was used to measure glucose concentration via a glucose strip test. The remaining blood was kept on ice, immediately brought to a laboratory, where it was centrifuged to separate red blood cells and plasma. These were transferred into two separate tubes and stored at -80 until further analysis. Plasma samples were used to analyse non-enzymatic anti-oxidant capacity using the Oxy-test and a lipid peroxidation marker, MDA, using mass spectrometry (LC-MS). The red blood cells were used to measure relative telomere length using a real-time RT-qPCR assay.
contact point: Dominoni, D.
publisher: NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
subject: Artificial light at night
subject: birds
subject: telomere length
subject: oxidative stress
subject: glucose
subject: eco-physiology
type: Dataset
available: 2024-11-21
landing page: https://doi.org/10.5285/55f10059-82c0-4216-a004-e6d690d628e1
license: OGL-UK-3.0.ttl
access rights: UNRS
distribution:
  access URL: https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/data/55f10059-82c0-4216-a004-e6d690d628e1
  license: OGL-UK-3.0.ttl
  access rights: UNRS
  format: Comma-separated values (CSV)
creator: Dominoni, D.
language: en

Dominoni, D.
type: Person
family name: Dominoni
given name: D.
member: University of Glasgow

NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
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