CORE--ANIMALS

本核心旨在确保高质量的实验 准备工作我们计划使用猫头鹰猴（Aotus trivirgatus），因为 在这些动物中， （Allman等人，1994年）。我们有一群猫头鹰猴， 每年3名婴儿，将用于发育地图集项目。 我们的主治兽医珍妮特·贝尔博士是 饲养和疾病的猫头鹰猴子，并已发表了大量关于 这个问题（Baer，1994）。我们还有一小群矮狐猴， 这对于MRI成像研究是有利的，因为它们的小 尺寸我们计划聘请一名动物技术员， 麻醉、生理监测和动物恢复 用于成像研究。

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.