title: Development of a body condition scoring system for nonhuman primates using Macaca mulatta as a model.
abstract: The nutritional status of individual monkeys in research projects is an important yet sometimes overlooked variable that complicates the interpretation of research findings. The authors offer a framework for scoring fatness and muscularity in a semiquantitative manner without special equipment and in a way that could easily be accomplished during a routine physical examination. Body condition scoring can be used to assess the health of individual animals as well as determine nutritional adequacy within groups of animals.
authors.affiliation: The Scripps Research Institute, Department of Animal Resources, MB-18, 10550 N. Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA.
authors.forename: Karen J
authors.initials: KJ
authors.lastname: Clingerman
authors.forename: Laura
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Summers
mesh_terms: D000824:Animal Nutritional Physiological Phenomena; D000818:Animals; D000886:Anthropometry / Q000379:methods*; D001823:Body Composition / Q000502:physiology*; D010173:Palpation / Q000379:methods; D011323:Primates / Q000502:physiology*; D012107:Research Design