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Monoamine oxidase polymorphisms in rhesus and Japanese macaques (Macaca mulatta and M. fuscata).
Journal of chemical neuroanatomy - 1 Jan 2020
Jones Danielle N, Ruiz Cody A, Raghanti Mary Ann, Tosi Anthony J, Tanaka Hiroyuki, Goto Yukiori
Abstract excerpt
Monoamine oxidase A (MAO-A) and monoamine oxidase B (MAO-B) are enzymes that degrade several monoamines of the central nervous system and have long been implicated in the modulation of social behavior. Macaque monkeys are a suitable model for investigating the role of functional monoamine oxidase polymorphisms in behavior modulation given the high amount of social diversity among the nearly two dozen species. The...
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