title: Anatomical study of a temporal bone from a non-human primate (Callithrix sp).
abstract: The search for experimental (animal) models is essential to the development of clinical studies.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  To demonstrate, by means of micro dissection techniques, the anatomical structures of temporal bones from the primate Callithrix sp.
  
  
  METHODS
  Experimental.
  
  
  METHODS
  Dissection of temporal bone structures of Callithrix sp and photographic documentation.
  
  
  RESULTS
  We identified the main constituents of the temporal bone (external, medium and inner ear and facial nerve).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The non-human primate Callithrix sp. is an adequate experimental model for the studies of temporal bone structures given its close anatomical similarities to that found in humans.
authors.affiliation: EPM, UNIFESP, Brazil.
authors.forename: Andrei
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Borin
authors.forename: Luciene
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Covolan
authors.forename: Luiz Eugênio
authors.initials: LE
authors.lastname: Mello
authors.forename: Daniel Mochida
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Okada
authors.forename: Oswaldo Laércio Mendonça
authors.initials: OL
authors.lastname: Cruz
authors.forename: Jose Ricardo Gurgel
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: Testa
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002144:Callithrix / Q000033:anatomy & histology*; D023421:Models, Animal; D013701:Temporal Bone / Q000033:anatomy & histology*