Introduced Monkey Populations of Florida - History, Status, and Potential Impacts
EDIS, 2022 At least nine populations of non-human primates have established in Florida since the 1930s. These include three species: rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta), vervet monkeys (Chlorocebus sabaeus), and squirrel monkeys (Saimiri sp.).
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Cellular immune responses in peripheral blood lymphocytes of Giardia infected squirrel monkey (Saimiri boliviensis boliviensis) treated with Fenbendazole. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2018 Cellular immune responses were tested to determine the effect of fenbendazole on the function of lymphocytes from Bolivian squirrel monkeys (Samiri boliviensis boliviensis).
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Squirrel Monkey Behavior in Research [PDF]
ILAR Journal, 2000 Squirrel monkeys have been a valuable animal model in biomedical research (Abee 2000). They have been utilized in a wide variety of study areas including, but not limited to, atherosclerosis, neuroscience, pharmacology, psychiatry, toxicology, and vision research.
L, Williams, M, Glasgow
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Journal of Electrical Bioimpedance, 2020 Nonhuman primates are often used in biomedical research and to investigate physiologic processes that occur in man. Impedance plethysmography was used to measure calf, thigh, pelvic, abdominal, and thoracic volume changes in ten Rhesus and eight squirrel
Montgomery Leslie David, Oloff Clarence
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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.
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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).
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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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