Treatment of persistent self-injurious behavior in rhesus monkeys through socialization: A preliminary report

Contemporary Topics in Laboratory Animal Science

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 21-23

  Weed, James L ^a   Wagner, Peggy O ^b   Byrum, Russ ^c   Parrish, Stephanie ^d   Knezevich, Mary ^a,e   Powell, Doug A ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

^c BIOQUAL INC   (United States)

^d HENRY M JACKSON FOUNDATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF MILITARY MEDICINE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL HOUSING; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AUTOMUTILATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; MALE; NONHUMAN; POPULATION GROWTH; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RHESUS MONKEY; SEX; SOCIALIZATION; VASECTOMY;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; FEMALE; HOUSING, ANIMAL; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SELF-INJURIOUS BEHAVIOR; SOCIALIZATION; VASECTOMY;

ANIMALIA; MACACA MULATTA; PRIMATES;

EID: 0141449006     PISSN: 10600558     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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