Pigtail macaques

Worlein, J.M. and Sackett, G.R, Social development in nursery-reared pigtailed macaques (Macaca nemestrina), Am. J. Primatol., 41, 23, 1997. 

LASKA, M., SEIBT, A., Olfactory sensitivity for aliphatic alcohols in squirrel monkeys and pigtail macaques. J. Exp. Biol., 2002, 205, 1633-1643. 

Del Prete GQ, Kearney MF, Spindler J, Wiegand A, Chertova E, Roser JD, Estes JD, Hao XP, Tmbey CM, Lara A, Lee K, Chaipan C, Bess JW Jr, Nagashima K, Keele BE, Macallister R, Smedley J, Pathak VK, Kewalramani VN, Coffin JM, Lifson JD. Restricted replication of xenotropic murine leukemia vims-related vims in pigtail macaques. J Virol. 2012 86 3152-66. 

In the pigtail macaque, the number of lamellar bodies per alveolar type II cell of older animals (15, 20 and 20 years, all female, = 73 cells) showed a significant decrease (P<0.01) compared with that of young animals (1.5,1.5,4.8 years, all female n = 66 cells) (Shimura et al. 1986). 

Whether true facsimiles of human postmenopausal and senile osteoporosis occur in other primates is unclear. Thinning of cortical bone between the ages of 10 and 20 yr has been observed in a cross-sectional sample of pigtailed macaques (Bowden et ai, 1979). However, thinning apparently occurs in premenopausal females at a rate similar to that seen in postmenopausal women, and the influence of the menopause on bone loss in this species is obscure. 

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