Monkey welfare

Myocardial Infarction in a Rhesus Monkey

Myocardial necrosis can be result from a number of causes including nutritional deficiencies, chemical and plant toxins, ischemia and metabolic disorder. The outcome of myocardial necrosis varies depending on the extent of the damage (Donald 2001, Jubb 1993, Radostits 1994, Vanvaleet 1986). Myocardial infarction without demonstrable of atherosclerosis were reported in a rhesus macaque (Gonder 1...

Skin mamfestation of monkey pox: A review

The current monkeypox outbreak reawakens the concern that poxviridae have a high potential for zoonotic spillover and causing a pandemic. Much fieldwork and research have been done by health care and public health workers in Africa during previous human outbreaks, and their knowledge should inform our global response to the current outbreak. However, unusual clinical presentations now have pote...

Welfare Politics: Building Welfare Institutions

The first generation of the welfare debates has focused on articulating the main drive which leads the development of the welfare state. They mainly exploit political or economic variables, such as industrialization (Wilensky and Lebaux 1958; Wilensky 1975), power resources mobilization of labor class (Korpi 1983; Esping-Andersen 1985), or roles of states (Flora and Alber 1981; Skocpol and Amen...

Neurophysiology: ‘Monkey see, monkey do’ cells

For nearly 40 years, the properties of single neurons in the cerebral cortex of the macaque monkey have been extensively probed and dutifully catalogued. Many characteristics of these cells have been described, such as the remarkable selectivity of units that respond to very specific visual stimuli, such as faces, and responses made by other cells when the monkey prepares a limb or an eye movem...

Welfare Reform’s Impact on Child Welfare