Preliminary studies of neurosensory and cardiopulmonary health compromise in captive- bred Rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta) suffering scoliosis

• Published in: Journal of medical primatology Vol. 41; no. 3; pp. 163 - 171
• Main Authors: Hernández-Godínez, Braulio, Ibáñez-Contreras, Alejandra, Reyes-Pantoja, Sergio, Durand-Rivera, Alfredo, Galvan-Montaño, Alfonso, Perdigón-Castañeda, Gerardo, Carmen Climent-Palmer, Ma, Tena-Betancourt, Eduardo
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford, UK Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.06.2012
• Subjects: Aging; Animals; computerized axial tomography scans; Evoked Potentials, Somatosensory - physiology; Heart Diseases - etiology; Heart Diseases - veterinary; idiopathic scoliosis; Macaca mulatta; Monkey Diseases - pathology; plain radiographs; Respiratory Tract Diseases - etiology; Respiratory Tract Diseases - veterinary; Scoliosis - complications; Scoliosis - pathology; Scoliosis - veterinary; somatosensory-evoked potentials

Background  It has been widely documented that quadrupedal animals rarely display natural spontaneous scoliotic rachis deviations of the spinal column. The objective was to determine spinal deformities developed by geriatric monkeys of the Macaca mulatta species, by radiographical and tomographical...