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Online Journal of Veterinary Research©
Volume
11 (1) : 1- 9, 2007
Comparison
of
a non-invasive
bio-telemetry shirt to whole body plethysmography
in African green monkeys (Chlorocebus aethiops).
MacLarty AM,a*,
Nalca
A,a Roy CJ,a†
aUnited States Army Medical
Research Institute of Infectious
Diseases,
ABSTRACT
MacLarty AM, Nalca
A, Roy CJ. Comparison
of a
non-invasive
biotelemetry shirt to
whole body plethysmography in African green
monkeys (Chlorocebus aethiops) Online
Journal of
Veterinary Research 11 (1) :
1- 9, 2007. Continuous
monitoring of physiological parameters such as respiration, ECG,
activity, and
temperature in large laboratory animals is an important tool for
biomedical
research and adequate veterinary care in preclinical research.
Noninvasive technologies such as jackets and telemetry allow nonhuman
primates
to be observed in a more natural setting without the use of
anesthesia.
A biotelemetry shirt (LifeShirt®)
is a clinical,
noninvasive, ambulatory monitoring system that provides continuous data
collection of respiration, ECG, activity, temperature, and other
parameters in
unrestrained animals. In this preliminary study, a biotelemetry
shirt was compared to whole body plethysmography
for
respiratory function parameters in African green monkeys. The
data
indicated that the biotelemetry shirt system and plethysmography
were comparable for respiratory parameters. In conclusion, the
use of a shirt system may prove to be very
beneficial for continuous respiratory parameter collection in conscious
nonhuman primates.
KEYWORDS:
Noninvasive biotelemetry, telemetry, Chlorocebus
aethiops, African green monkey,
respiratory, plethysmography.