Plesker Roland, Schulze Helga
Paul Ehrlich Institut, Langen, Bochum, Germany.
Am J Primatol. 2006 Aug;68(8):838-44. doi: 10.1002/ajp.20283.
In a colony of slender lorises, 20 deaths that occurred over a period of 11 years were investigated postmortem. Juvenile/adult polycystic nephropathy was observed in one newborn and 13 adult slender lorises. Although polycystic kidney disease (PKD) in humans and other animals is known to be inherited, it is not clear whether kidney alterations in slender lorises are genetically transmitted, stress related, or induced by microbiological influences.
在一个懒猴群体中,对11年间发生的20例死亡进行了尸检调查。在1只新生懒猴和13只成年懒猴中观察到青少年/成年多囊肾病。虽然已知人类和其他动物的多囊肾病(PKD)是遗传性的,但尚不清楚懒猴的肾脏改变是通过基因传递、与压力相关还是由微生物影响所致。