YERKES REGIONAL PRIMATE RESEARCH CENTER

耶克斯地区灵长类动物研究中心是罗伯特·W·罗伯茨研究所的一个分支机构。 埃默里大学伍德拉夫健康科学中心。耶克斯收到了它的 国家研究中心动物资源分会的主要支持 资源，NIH，以及来自联邦和 私人消息来源。该中心致力于基础和应用生物医学 以及对灵长类动物的行为研究。研究项目涉及 几种类人猿和猴子主要针对四种 主要任务：(1)神经学研究，包括神经解剖学， 神经生理学、神经内分泌学和神经行为。在这个范围内 学科集群对基本视觉机制有很强的关注 和视力障碍；(2)行为研究，包括社会行为 以及它的生物学根源，特别是激素和 环境的影响及其相互作用，学习，记忆， 认知，交流和语言行为，精神药理学和 心理生物学；(3)实验病理生物学和免疫生物学，包括： 人类感染性和非传染性肿瘤疾病和灵长类动物模型 退行性疾病；(4)生殖生物学，包括体外 受精、内分泌学和行为学，以及生育力和 不孕不育。该中心由一个主站组成，里面有动物 位于埃默里大学校园的宿舍和研究实验室， 占地115英亩的大田研究站，用于培育和研究半自由- 位于亚特兰大以北30英里的灵长类动物的一系列社会行为， 以及位于亚特兰大东南部的语言研究中心。亚特兰大动物园举行 许多耶克斯大猩猩和猩猩的标本可供 保护、繁殖、内分泌、生殖生物学和行为 研究。

The Yerkes Regional Primate Research Center is a division of the Robert W. Woodruff Health Sciences Center of Emory University. Yerkes receives its primary support from Animal Resources Branch, National Center for Research Resources, NIH, and from research grants and contracts from federal and private sources. The Center is committed to basic and applied biomedical and behavioral research with primates. Research programs involving several great ape and monkey species are directed primarily toward four major missions: (1) Neurological research including neuroanatomy, neurophysiology, neuroendocrinology, and neurobehavior. Within this cluster of disciplines there is a strong focus on basic visual mechanisms and disorders of vision; (2) Behavioral research including social behavior and its biological roots with special reference to hormones and environmental influences and their interactions, learning, memory, cognition, communication and linguistic behavior, psychopharmacology and psychobiology; (3) Experimental pathobiology and immunobiology including: neoplastic diseases and primate models for human infectious and degenerative diseases; (4) Reproductive biology including in vitro fertilization, endocrinology and behavior, and studies of fertility and sterility. The Center consists of a Main Station containing animal quarters and research laboratories located on the Emory University campus, a 115 acre Field Research Station for breeding and studies of semi-free- ranging social behavior in primates, located 30 miles north of Atlanta, and a Language Research center in southeast Atlanta. Zoo Atlanta holds many specimens of Yerkes gorillas and orangutans available for conservation, breeding, endocrine, reproductive biology and behavioral research.