SERUM AND URINE BIOCHEMICAL DIVERSITY AMONG ADULT WILD-CAUGHT AOTUS-NANCYMAE AND SAIMIRI-PERUVIENSIS

Citation
Re. Weller et al., SERUM AND URINE BIOCHEMICAL DIVERSITY AMONG ADULT WILD-CAUGHT AOTUS-NANCYMAE AND SAIMIRI-PERUVIENSIS, Journal of medical primatology, 25(1), 1996, pp. 46-52
Citations number
24
Categorie Soggetti
Zoology,"Veterinary Sciences
ISSN journal
00472565
Volume
25
Issue
1
Year of publication
1996
Pages
46 - 52
Database
ISI
SICI code
0047-2565(1996)25:1<46:SAUBDA>2.0.ZU;2-I
Abstract
Serum and urine analytes were compared between adult wild-caught owl m onkeys (Aotus nancymae) and adult wild-caught squirrel monkeys (Saimir i peruviensis) to determine if normative clinical pathology data were similar. An objective of the study was to confirm that species of neot ropical primates are distinct with regard to physiologic parameters, a nd should not be considered interchangeable in biomedical research. Si gnificant differences (P < 0.05) were noted in many serum and urine an alytes between the two groups. The results suggest that reference data for wild-caught owl monkeys are not applicable to squirrel monkeys, a nd the differences are sufficiently large to be of clinical significan ce. These findings illuminate the diversity among species of neotropic al primates.