Explore: Marmosets As Laboratory Animals

Animal testing, also known as animal experimentation, animal research, and in vivo testing, is the use of animals, as model organisms, in experiments

Abolition of Vivisection (BUAV). The experiments were being conducted on marmosets, and included the removal of parts of their brains intended to simulate

Parasitology, Virology, Ethology and Alternatives for Animal Research. The BPRC houses rhesus macaques and marmosets to be used in biomedical research involving

macaques, marmosets and gibbons. Unlike previous mpox outbreaks in laboratory monkeys, the outbreak in Rotterdam Zoo occurred in animals that were not

gibbon) and 14 species of monkey/prosimian (capuchins, common marmosets, Geoffrey's marmosets, cotton-top tamarins, patas monkeys, red-bellied guenons, ring-tailed

themselves. In addition, the caging of laboratory animals may render them irrelevant models of human health because these animals lack day-to-day variations in

discovered that marmosets can carry the reproductive cells of their (fraternal) twin siblings due to placental fusion during development. (Marmosets almost always

near total ban on the use of great apes as laboratory animals. The last time great apes were used in laboratory experiments in Germany was 1991. Most of

infraorder Simiiformes, also known as simians. Traditionally, all animals in the group now known as simians are counted as monkeys except the apes. Thus monkeys

relating to animals. Animals used include mice, guinea pigs, rats, pigs, ferrets, sheep, and non-human primates (believed to be marmosets and rhesus macaque)