Dietary effects on rhesus social behavior: altered amino acid diets.
Twenty-one monkeys continuously fed one of five diets high in tyrosine, histidine, alanine, glycine, or tryptophan between the ages of 1 and 12 months were compared with 20 controls. Social behavior either (a) while on the diet and tested in familiar groups of four or (b) while on a normal diet and paired with unfamiliar monkeys showed no effects of the high amino acid diets, confirming a previous analysis of learning ability.
D000592:Amino Acid Metabolism, Inborn Errors; D000596:Amino Acids / Q000008:administration & dosage*; D000818:Animals; D004032:Diet; D004195:Disease Models, Animal; D005260:Female; D008253:Macaca mulatta; D008297:Male; D010988:Play and Playthings; D012919:Social Behavior; D012934:Social Isolation
D000596:Amino Acids