Striatal dopamine D2/3 receptor regulation by stress inoculation in squirrel monkeys
Neurobiology of Stress, 2016 Intermittent mildly stressful situations provide opportunities to learn, practice, and improve coping in a process called stress inoculation. Stress inoculation also enhances cognitive control and response inhibition of impulsive motivated behavior ...
Alex G. Lee +7 more
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Dissecting the mechanisms of squirrel monkey (Saimiri boliviensis) social learning [PDF]
PeerJ, 2013 Although the social learning abilities of monkeys have been well documented, this research has only focused on a few species. Furthermore, of those that also incorporated dissections of social learning mechanisms, the majority studied either capuchins ...
LM Hopper +3 more
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Susceptibilities of Nonhuman Primates to Chronic Wasting Disease
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2009 Chronic wasting disease (CWD) is a transmissible spongiform encephalopathy, or prion disease, that affects deer, elk, and moose. Human susceptibility to CWD remains unproven despite likely exposure to CWD-infected cervids.
Brent Race +16 more
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Experimental Infection of Squirrel Monkeys with Nipah Virus
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2010 We infected squirrel monkeys (Saimiri sciureus) with Nipah virus to determine the monkeys’ suitability for use as primate models in preclinical testing of preventive and therapeutic treatments.
Philippe Marianneau +10 more
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Understanding Solidity: Investigating Knowledge of a Functional Object Property in Brown Capuchin Monkeys (Sapajus apella) and Common Squirrel Monkeys (Saimiri sciureus) [PDF]
Animal Behavior and Cognition, 2020 Humans form abstract representations about the physical properties of objects, with very young infants having ‘core knowledge’ about solidity and continuity.
Eleanor J. Jordan +3 more
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Phenotypic and functional characterization of lymphocytes from different age groups of Bolivian squirrel monkeys (Saimiri boliviensis boliviensis). [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 Due to many physiological and genetic characteristic similarities to humans, squirrel monkeys provide an ideal animal model specifically for studying malaria, and transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease).
Pramod N Nehete +7 more
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The Infection Rates of Trypanosomes in Squirrel Monkeys at Two Sites in the Brazilian Amazon
Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 1997 A study was conducted to determine the prevalence of natural infections by trypanosome species in squirrel monkeys: Saimiri sciureus (Linnaeus) and Saimiri ustus (Geoffroy) caught respectively near 2 hydroelectric plants: Balbina, in the State of ...
Mariangela Ziccardi +1 more
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Does opportunistic testing bias cognitive performance in primates? Learning from drop-outs [PDF]
, 2019 Dropouts are a common issue in cognitive tests with non-human primates. One main reason for dropouts is that researchers often face a trade-off between obtaining a sufficiently large sample size and logistic restrictions, such as limited access to ...
Burkart, Judith M. +2 more
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Functional Organization of Visual Cortex in the Owl Monkey [PDF]
, 2004 In this study, we compared the organization of orientation preference in visual areas V1, V2, and V3. Within these visual areas, we also quantified the relationship between orientation preference and cytochrome oxidase (CO) staining patterns. V1 maps of
Bosking, W. +5 more
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Small-molecule polymerase inhibitor protects non-human primates from measles and reduces shedding
Nature Communications, 2021 Measles virus is highly contagious and outbreaks occur worldwide. Here the authors show that the orally bioavailable small-molecule polymerase inhibitor ERDRP-0519 prevents measles disease in squirrel monkeys and reduces virus shedding.
Kevin Wittwer +13 more
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