CORE--ANIMALS

此核心的目的是确保高质量的实验 准备工作。我们计划使用猫头鹰猴子(Aotus Trivirgatus)，因为 已经在这些动物身上广泛绘制了皮质视觉区域的地图 (Allman等人，1994年)。我们有一群猫头鹰猴子，产2到2只 每年3名婴儿，将用于发展图集项目。 我们的主治医生珍妮特·贝尔博士是这方面的权威 猫头鹰猴子的畜牧业和疾病，并在 这个主题(Baer，1994)。我们还有一小群矮狐猴， 这对磁共振成像研究是有利的，因为它们很小 尺码。我们计划聘请一名动物技术员，他将协助 麻醉、生理监测及待恢复的动物 在成像研究中使用。

The purpose of this Core is to insure high quality experimental preparations. We plan to use owl monkeys (Aotus trivirgatus) because the cortical visual areas have been extensively mapped in these animals (Allman et al., 1994). We have a colony of owl monkeys that produces 2 to 3 infants per year, which will be used in the developmental atlas project. Our attending veterinarian, Dr. Janet Baer, is an authority on the husbandry and diseases of owl monkeys and has published extensively on this subject (Baer, 1994). We also have a small colony of dwarf lemurs, which are advantageous for MRI imaging studies because of their small size. We plan to hire an animal technician who will assist in the anesthesia, physiological monitoring and recovery of the animals to be used in the imaging studies.