The laboratory primate
By: edited by Sonia Wolfe-Coote.
Contributors: Wolfe-Coote, Sonia.
Series: The Handbook of experimental animals; The Handbook of experimental animals; Handbook of experimental animals
Publisher: Elsevier Academic Press; Academic Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Amsterdam; Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 621
Subjects: Primates as laboratory animals; Primates; Animals, Laboratory; Animal Diseases
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The taxonomy of primates in the laboratory context.; title: Similarities of non-human primates to humans: genetic variations and phenotypic associations common to rhesus monkeys and humans.; title: General anatomy.; title: Pathology of noninfectious diseases of the laboratory primate.; title: Common viral infections of laboratory primates.; title: Modeling parasitic diseases in nonhuman primates: malaria, Chagas' disease, and filariasis.; title: Reproduction: definition of a a primate model of female fertility.; title: Male reproduction and fertilization.; title: Primate natural history and social behavior: implications for laboratory housing.; title: Husbandry and management of new world species: marmosets and tamarins.; title: Management of old world primates.; title: Vervet monkey breeding.; title: Nutrition and nutritional diseases.; title: Environmental enrichment and refinement of handling procedures.; title: Development of specific pathogen free nonhuman primate colonies.; title: Medical care.; title: Factors affecting the choice of species.; title: Anaesthesia.; title: Rigid endoscopy.; title: Ultrasound imaging in Rhesus (Macaca mulatta) and long-tailed (Macaca fascicularis) macaques: reproductive and research applications.; title: Functional magnetic resonance imaging in conscious marmoset monkeys: methods and applications in neuroscience research.; title: Radiographic imaging of nonhuman primates.; title: Imaging: positron emission tomography (PET).; title: Use of the primate model in research.; title: Chronic diseases.; title: Practical approaches to pharmacological studies in nonhuman primates.; title: Nonhuman primate models of human aging.; title: Primate models of neurological disease.; title: Genetics: a survey of nonhuman primate genetics, genetic management and applications to biomedical research.; title: The respiratory system and its use in research.; title: Reproduction: male.; title: Reproduction: female.; title: The baboon as an appropriate model for the study of multifactoral aspects of human endometriosis.; title: Virology research.; title: Parasitic diseases of nonhuman primates.