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The Institute manages the world's largest research colony of chimpanzees (240 animals), and maintains large macaque and rodent colonies. Clinical chemistry, hematology, pathology, and radioimmunoassay laboratories provide end points for study in primates and lower mammals of the efficacity and safety of new drugs, and toxicology of commercial chemicals and environmental pollutants. The highly equipped analytical chemistry and metabolism laboratories permit identification of potentially toxic metabolities of such compounds and analysis of the body's ability to eliminate or detoxify them. Primate models with metabolism closely similar to man are especially important for assessing the risk to humans of potentially toxic compounds.
Reproductive biology and developmental endocrinology are other areas of major effort where primates have found a special role, particularly for studies of fertility control and of endocrine maturation. A breeding program produces 20-30 chimpanzees and up to 75 macaques per year.
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