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Primate Biol., 4, 17–25, 2017
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Special issue: Special diseases of nonhuman primates
Research article 01 Mar 2017
Research article | 01 Mar 2017
Spontaneous lung pathology in a captive common marmoset colony (Callithrix jacchus)
Martina Bleyer et al.
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Roland Plesker, Martina Bleyer, and Kerstin Mätz-Rensing
Primate Biol., 5, 7–13, https://doi.org/10.5194/pb-5-7-2018, https://doi.org/10.5194/pb-5-7-2018, 2018
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We present a spontaneous tumor of the meninges (meningioma) in a female pig-tailed macaque (Macaca nemestrina) more than 24 years old. Clinically, the monkey displayed slow, weak, and insecure movements and poor vision. A tumorous mass was present at the floor of the cranial cavity. It compressed adjacent parts of the brain, infiltrated surrounding bones, and expanded into the throat. Microscopically, the tumor showed both meningothelial and microcystic parts.
Kerstin Mätz-Rensing and Martina Bleyer
Primate Biol., 4, 229–230, https://doi.org/10.5194/pb-4-229-2017, https://doi.org/10.5194/pb-4-229-2017, 2017
Eva Gruber-Dujardin, Martina Bleyer, and Kerstin Mätz-Rensing
Primate Biol., 4, 77–91, https://doi.org/10.5194/pb-4-77-2017, https://doi.org/10.5194/pb-4-77-2017, 2017
Karen Lampe, Jens-Christian Rudnick, Fabian Leendertz, Martina Bleyer, and Kerstin Mätz-Rensing
Primate Biol., 4, 39–46, https://doi.org/10.5194/pb-4-39-2017, https://doi.org/10.5194/pb-4-39-2017, 2017
Tamara Becker, Florian Pieper, David Liebetanz, Martina Bleyer, Annette Schrod, Kerstin Maetz-Rensing, and Stefan Treue
Primate Biol., 4, 27–32, https://doi.org/10.5194/pb-4-27-2017, https://doi.org/10.5194/pb-4-27-2017, 2017
Antonina Klippert, Martina Bleyer, Ulrike Sauermann, Berit Neumann, Artur Kaul, Maria Daskalaki, Nicole Stolte-Leeb, Frank Kirchhoff, and Christiane Stahl-Hennig
Primate Biol., 3, 65–75, https://doi.org/10.5194/pb-3-65-2016, https://doi.org/10.5194/pb-3-65-2016, 2016
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Despite effective antiviral therapy, HIV infection frequently leads to blood cell tumors known as lymphoma in the final disease stage. We have observed the same tumors in monkeys infected with simian immunodeficiency virus. Tumor development coincided with and was fostered by co-infection with the tumorigenic simian homolog to human Epstein–Barr virus. Two cases of lymphoma are presented, one exhibiting an unusual cell surface marker composition and the other obstructing the urogenital tract.
Roland Plesker, Martina Bleyer, and Kerstin Mätz-Rensing
Primate Biol., 5, 7–13, https://doi.org/10.5194/pb-5-7-2018, https://doi.org/10.5194/pb-5-7-2018, 2018
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We present a spontaneous tumor of the meninges (meningioma) in a female pig-tailed macaque (Macaca nemestrina) more than 24 years old. Clinically, the monkey displayed slow, weak, and insecure movements and poor vision. A tumorous mass was present at the floor of the cranial cavity. It compressed adjacent parts of the brain, infiltrated surrounding bones, and expanded into the throat. Microscopically, the tumor showed both meningothelial and microcystic parts.
Kerstin Mätz-Rensing and Martina Bleyer
Primate Biol., 4, 229–230, https://doi.org/10.5194/pb-4-229-2017, https://doi.org/10.5194/pb-4-229-2017, 2017
Kerstin Mätz-Rensing, Constanze Yue, Jeanette Klenner, Heinz Ellerbrok, and Christiane Stahl-Hennig
Primate Biol., 4, 163–171, https://doi.org/10.5194/pb-4-163-2017, https://doi.org/10.5194/pb-4-163-2017, 2017
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The research into therapeutic agents for prevention and treatment of orthopoxvirus (OPXV) infections requires adequate animal models to investigate the efficacy and safety of new vaccines and antiviral compounds against smallpox and other highly pathogenic OPXVs. This study was undertaken to investigate the susceptibility of rhesus monkeys towards the calpox virus, an orthopoxvirus of the species Cowpox virus, which is uniformly lethal in common marmosets, in order to define a new animal model.
Matthias Mietsch, Ulrike Sauermann, Kerstin Mätz-Rensing, Antonina Klippert, Maria Daskalaki, Nicole Stolte-Leeb, and Christiane Stahl-Hennig
Primate Biol., 4, 107–115, https://doi.org/10.5194/pb-4-107-2017, https://doi.org/10.5194/pb-4-107-2017, 2017
Eva Gruber-Dujardin, Martina Bleyer, and Kerstin Mätz-Rensing
Primate Biol., 4, 77–91, https://doi.org/10.5194/pb-4-77-2017, https://doi.org/10.5194/pb-4-77-2017, 2017
Nicole Cichon, Karen Lampe, Felix Bremmer, Tamara Becker, and Kerstin Mätz-Rensing
Primate Biol., 4, 71–75, https://doi.org/10.5194/pb-4-71-2017, https://doi.org/10.5194/pb-4-71-2017, 2017
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We herein report a unique case of granulomatous arteritis in a grey mouse lemur affecting multiple organs, which is not comparable to other disease entities formerly described in nonhuman primates. The features of the entity most closely resemble disseminated visceral giant cell arteritis in humans. A concise description of the disease is given, and the differential diagnoses are discussed. An idiopathic pathogenesis is suspected.
Karen Lampe, Jens-Christian Rudnick, Fabian Leendertz, Martina Bleyer, and Kerstin Mätz-Rensing
Primate Biol., 4, 39–46, https://doi.org/10.5194/pb-4-39-2017, https://doi.org/10.5194/pb-4-39-2017, 2017
Tamara Becker, Florian Pieper, David Liebetanz, Martina Bleyer, Annette Schrod, Kerstin Maetz-Rensing, and Stefan Treue
Primate Biol., 4, 27–32, https://doi.org/10.5194/pb-4-27-2017, https://doi.org/10.5194/pb-4-27-2017, 2017
Antonina Klippert, Martina Bleyer, Ulrike Sauermann, Berit Neumann, Artur Kaul, Maria Daskalaki, Nicole Stolte-Leeb, Frank Kirchhoff, and Christiane Stahl-Hennig
Primate Biol., 3, 65–75, https://doi.org/10.5194/pb-3-65-2016, https://doi.org/10.5194/pb-3-65-2016, 2016
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Despite effective antiviral therapy, HIV infection frequently leads to blood cell tumors known as lymphoma in the final disease stage. We have observed the same tumors in monkeys infected with simian immunodeficiency virus. Tumor development coincided with and was fostered by co-infection with the tumorigenic simian homolog to human Epstein–Barr virus. Two cases of lymphoma are presented, one exhibiting an unusual cell surface marker composition and the other obstructing the urogenital tract.
N. Siskos, K. Lampe, F.-J. Kaup, and K. Mätz-Rensing
Primate Biol., 2, 9–12, https://doi.org/10.5194/pb-2-9-2015, https://doi.org/10.5194/pb-2-9-2015, 2015
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In this paper, a co-infection with Toxoplasma gondii and Capillaria hepatica in a ring-tailed lemur is described. As a protozoan parasite, T. gondii can affect nearly all warm-blooded species, causing toxoplasmosis. In lemurs, toxoplasmosis has severe clinical manifestations leading to death. C. hepatica also affects a broad range of mammals, causing hepatic capillariasis. Although it is not known to be lethal, its potential predisposition to toxoplasmosis in our case is of great interest.
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Roland Plesker and Gudrun Hintereder
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To our knowledge, this study is the first report of spontaneous Hashimoto-like chronic lymphocytic thyroiditis in a rhesus macaque (Macaca mulatta). Despite the microscopic similarities to human cases, autoantibodies (thyroglobulin antibodies, thyriod peroxidase antibodies, and thyroid-stimulating hormone receptor antibodies) were not identified in this rhesus macaque using a human electrochemiluminescence immunoassay system.
Roland Plesker, Kernt Köhler, Susanne von Gerlach, Klaus Boller, Markus Vogt, and Inke S. Feder
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This report describes a reactive mesothelial hyperplasia as a reaction to a polyserositis in an African green monkey (Chlorocebus aethiops) mimicking an epitheloid mesothelioma. Histopathology, immunohistochemistry, fluorescence in situ hybridization, and electron microscopy were used to determine the benign nature of the mesothelial proliferation. For the first time, human genetic probes had been successfully applied to an African green monkey.
Roland Plesker, Martina Bleyer, and Kerstin Mätz-Rensing
Primate Biol., 5, 7–13, https://doi.org/10.5194/pb-5-7-2018, https://doi.org/10.5194/pb-5-7-2018, 2018
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We present a spontaneous tumor of the meninges (meningioma) in a female pig-tailed macaque (Macaca nemestrina) more than 24 years old. Clinically, the monkey displayed slow, weak, and insecure movements and poor vision. A tumorous mass was present at the floor of the cranial cavity. It compressed adjacent parts of the brain, infiltrated surrounding bones, and expanded into the throat. Microscopically, the tumor showed both meningothelial and microcystic parts.
Marko Dubicanac, Ute Radespiel, and Elke Zimmermann
Primate Biol., 4, 215–228, https://doi.org/10.5194/pb-4-215-2017, https://doi.org/10.5194/pb-4-215-2017, 2017
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This review shows that mouse lemurs show various ocular impairments which may distort vision. The most widespread and obvious ocular finding were nuclear sclerosis and cataracts. Both highly increase with increasing age. Iris posterior synechia has been described in different colonies and seems highly age dependent and cataract associated. Combined with the variety of many other eye diseases, special ophthalmological treatments and examinations are required to ensure animal well-being.
Ivanela Kondova, Gerco Braskamp, Peter J. Heidt, Wim Collignon, Tom Haaksma, Nanine de Groot, Nel Otting, Gaby Doxiadis, Susan V. Westmoreland, Eric J. Vallender, and Ronald E. Bontrop
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Eva Gruber-Dujardin, Martina Bleyer, and Kerstin Mätz-Rensing
Primate Biol., 4, 77–91, https://doi.org/10.5194/pb-4-77-2017, https://doi.org/10.5194/pb-4-77-2017, 2017
Nicole Cichon, Karen Lampe, Felix Bremmer, Tamara Becker, and Kerstin Mätz-Rensing
Primate Biol., 4, 71–75, https://doi.org/10.5194/pb-4-71-2017, https://doi.org/10.5194/pb-4-71-2017, 2017
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We herein report a unique case of granulomatous arteritis in a grey mouse lemur affecting multiple organs, which is not comparable to other disease entities formerly described in nonhuman primates. The features of the entity most closely resemble disseminated visceral giant cell arteritis in humans. A concise description of the disease is given, and the differential diagnoses are discussed. An idiopathic pathogenesis is suspected.
Dina Kleinlützum and Roland Plesker
Primate Biol., 4, 33–37, https://doi.org/10.5194/pb-4-33-2017, https://doi.org/10.5194/pb-4-33-2017, 2017
Karen Lampe, Jens-Christian Rudnick, Fabian Leendertz, Martina Bleyer, and Kerstin Mätz-Rensing
Primate Biol., 4, 39–46, https://doi.org/10.5194/pb-4-39-2017, https://doi.org/10.5194/pb-4-39-2017, 2017
M. Brack
Primate Biol., 2, 81–87, https://doi.org/10.5194/pb-2-81-2015, https://doi.org/10.5194/pb-2-81-2015, 2015
F.-J. Kaup
Primate Biol., 2, 57–63, https://doi.org/10.5194/pb-2-57-2015, https://doi.org/10.5194/pb-2-57-2015, 2015
N. Siskos, K. Lampe, F.-J. Kaup, and K. Mätz-Rensing
Primate Biol., 2, 9–12, https://doi.org/10.5194/pb-2-9-2015, https://doi.org/10.5194/pb-2-9-2015, 2015
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In this paper, a co-infection with Toxoplasma gondii and Capillaria hepatica in a ring-tailed lemur is described. As a protozoan parasite, T. gondii can affect nearly all warm-blooded species, causing toxoplasmosis. In lemurs, toxoplasmosis has severe clinical manifestations leading to death. C. hepatica also affects a broad range of mammals, causing hepatic capillariasis. Although it is not known to be lethal, its potential predisposition to toxoplasmosis in our case is of great interest.
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