Buch, Englisch, 650 Seiten, Format (B × H): 215 mm x 280 mm, Gewicht: 1923 g
ISBN: 978-0-12-080261-6
Verlag: Elsevier Health Sciences
Zielgruppe
Researchers & students in biological, veterinary, and medical sciences, researchers in the pharmaceutical industry, commercial toxicological and pathology laboratories
Weitere Infos & Material
Part 1: Definition of the Primate Model
1.1 The Taxonomy of Primates in the Laboratory Context
1.2 Similarities of Non Human Primates to Humans
1.3 General Anatomy
1.4 Pathology
1.4.1 Non infectious diseases
1.4.2 Common Viral Infections
1.4.3 Modelling Parasitic diseases in Non Human
Primates: Malaria, Chagas Disease and Filariasis
1.5 Reproduction: Definition of a Primate Model of Female Fertility
1.6 Male Reproduction and Fertilization
1.7 Primate Natural History and Social Behaviour: Implications for Laboratory Housing
Part 2: Primate Management
2.1 New World Primates
2.1.1 Husbandry and Management: Marmosets and
Tamarins
2.2 Old World Primates
2.2.1 Practical Care & Management of Macaques
2.2.2 Vervet Monkey Breeding
2.3 Nutrition and Nutritional Diseases
2.4 Environmental Enrichment & Refinement of Handling Procedures
2.5 Development of Specific Pathogen Free (SPF)
Non Human Primate Colonies
2.6 Medical Care
Part 3: Current Uses in Biomedical Research
3.1 Factors affecting the choice of species
3.2 Techniques & Procedures
3.2.1 Anaesthesia
3.2.2 Rigid Endoscopy
3.2.3 Ultrasound Imaging in Rhesus (Macaca mulatta)and Long-tailed (Macaca fascicularis) Macaques: Reproductive & Research Applications
3.2.4 Functional Magnetic Resonances Imaging in Conscious Marmoset Monkeys: Methods and Applications in Neuroscience Research
3.2.5 Radiographic Imaging of Non Human Primates
3.2.6 Imaging: Positron Emission Tomography (PET)
3.3 Current Uses in Biomedical Research
3.3.1 The Use of the Primate Model in Research
3.3.2 Chronic Diseases
3.3.3 Practical approaches to Pharmacological
3.3.4 Non Human Primate Models of Human Aging
3.3.5 Primate Models of Neurological Disease
3.3.6 Genetics: A survey of Non Human Primate
Genetics, Genetic Management and Applications
to Biomedical Research
3.3.7 The Respiratory System & its use in research
3.3.8 Reproduction - Male
3.3.9 Reproduction - Female
3.3.10 The Baboon as an Appropriate Model for Study
3.3.11 Virology Research
3.3.12 Parasitic Diseases of Non Human Primates