Primate Models in Pharmaceutical Drug Development

Nonhuman primates continue to gain increasing importance as animal models for toxicity investigations and as surrogate models for the study of human physiology. At the same time, the quality of study and experimental techniques are consistently improving. This book compiles the presentations given by internationally recognized experts on the occasion of the 13th Primate Symposium which was held 2002 in Münster, Germany, on February 26-27, and was devoted to 'Primate Models in Pharmaceutical Drug Development'. The symposium focused on physiology and endrocrinology of reproduction, age-related diseases and pathology, current and future issues in biotechnology and new developments in primate toxicology.

Contributors

Humaira Aslam, Louis Boon, David Brusick, Eberhard Buse, Marcel T. den Hartog, Stephanie Friderichs-Gromoll, Antje Fuchs, Heinrich Gerding, Gunnar Habermann, Chris P. Jerome, Axel Kamischke, Joachim Kaspareit, Ludwig Kiesel, Rainhart Korte, Sven Korte, Jon D. Laman, Pauline L. Martin, Susanne Mohr, Wolfgang Müller, Marc Niehoff, Eberhard Nieschlag, Birgit Niggemann, Mathias W. Seeliger, Barbara Sonntag, Mary Ann Stanley, Friedhelm Vogel, Gerhard F. Weinbauer, Michael Zitzmann, Eberhard Zrenner, Ulrich Zühlke