Abstract

This project has provided the first evidence that maternal responsiveness increases during pregnancy in pigtail and rhesus macaques and that treatment of ovariectomized rhesus females with estrogen increases significantly their interest in infants. Estrogen-treated ovariectomized females also increased their sexual interest in adult males without any concomitant changes in male behavior. This project has also investigated other aspects of female-and male-infant interactions in macaques including interindividual and interspecific variability in maternal cradling, infant nipple preferences, and mothering style. Finally, this project has continued an ongoing investigation of social communication dynamics within macaque groups, providing information useful to understand the social context in which adult females and males interact with infants. Altogether, these studies have enhanced our knowledge of the hormonal and social regulation of infant-directed behavior in macaques as we ll as our understanding of the relationship between social environment and communication systems in primates.

  Funding Agency

Agency
National Institute of Health (NIH)
Institute
National Center for Research Resources (NCRR)
Type
Primate Research Center Grants (P51)
Project #
5P51RR000165-38
Application #
6277505
Study Section
Project Start
1998-05-01
Project End
1999-04-30
Budget Start
1997-10-01
Budget End
1998-09-30
Support Year
38
Fiscal Year
1998
Total Cost
Indirect Cost

  Institution

Name
Emory University
Department
Type
DUNS #
042250712
City
Atlanta
State
GA
Country
United States
Zip Code
30322

  Publications

Tedesco, Dana; Grakoui, Arash (2018) Environmental peer pressure: CD4+ T cell help in tolerance and transplantation. Liver Transpl 24:89-97
Mavigner, Maud; Habib, Jakob; Deleage, Claire et al. (2018) Simian Immunodeficiency Virus Persistence in Cellular and Anatomic Reservoirs in Antiretroviral Therapy-Suppressed Infant Rhesus Macaques. J Virol 92:
Walker, Lary C (2018) Prion-like mechanisms in Alzheimer disease. Handb Clin Neurol 153:303-319
Kamberov, Yana G; Guhan, Samantha M; DeMarchis, Alessandra et al. (2018) Comparative evidence for the independent evolution of hair and sweat gland traits in primates. J Hum Evol 125:99-105
Wakeford, Alison G P; Morin, Elyse L; Bramlett, Sara N et al. (2018) A review of nonhuman primate models of early life stress and adolescent drug abuse. Neurobiol Stress 9:188-198
Singh, Arun; Jenkins, Meagan A; Burke Jr, Kenneth J et al. (2018) Glutamatergic Tuning of Hyperactive Striatal Projection Neurons Controls the Motor Response to Dopamine Replacement in Parkinsonian Primates. Cell Rep 22:941-952
Maddox, S A; Kilaru, V; Shin, J et al. (2018) Estrogen-dependent association of HDAC4 with fear in female mice and women with PTSD. Mol Psychiatry 23:658-665
Li, Chun-Xia; Kempf, Doty J; Tong, Frank C et al. (2018) Longitudinal MRI Evaluation of Ischemic Stroke in the Basal Ganglia of a Rhesus Macaque (Macaca mulatta) with Seizures. Comp Med :
Lacreuse, Agnès; Parr, Lisa; Chennareddi, Lakshmi et al. (2018) Age-related decline in cognitive flexibility in female chimpanzees. Neurobiol Aging 72:83-88
Meng, Yuguang; Hu, Xiaoping; Zhang, Xiaodong et al. (2018) Diffusion tensor imaging reveals microstructural alterations in corpus callosum and associated transcallosal fiber tracts in adult macaques with neonatal hippocampal lesions. Hippocampus 28:838-845

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