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Kraft-Schreyer N, Angelakos ET. Noninvasive measurement of blood pressure in African green monkeys (Cercopithecus aethiops). Am J Primatol. 1985;9(4):285-294doi: 10.1002/ajp.1350090405.
Kraft-Schreyer, N., & Angelakos, E. T. (1985). Noninvasive measurement of blood pressure in African green monkeys (Cercopithecus aethiops). American journal of primatology, 9(4), 285-294. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajp.1350090405
Kraft-Schreyer, N, and Angelakos, E T. "Noninvasive measurement of blood pressure in African green monkeys (Cercopithecus aethiops)." American journal of primatology vol. 9,4 (1985): 285-294. doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/ajp.1350090405
Kraft-Schreyer N, Angelakos ET. Noninvasive measurement of blood pressure in African green monkeys (Cercopithecus aethiops). Am J Primatol. 1985;9(4):285-294. doi: 10.1002/ajp.1350090405. PMID: 31979507.
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Am J Primatol. 1985;9(4):285-294. doi: 10.1002/ajp.1350090405.

Noninvasive measurement of blood pressure in African green monkeys (Cercopithecus aethiops).

American journal of primatology

N Kraft-Schreyer, E T Angelakos

Affiliations

  1. Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Hahnemann University, Philadelphia.

PMID: 31979507 DOI: 10.1002/ajp.1350090405

Abstract

Indirect measurements of arterial blood pressure were made in African green monkeys (Cercopithecus aethiops) employing a Doppler ultrasound stethoscope and standard cuff and an Infrasonde automatic blood pressure recorder. Measurements were obtained from anesthetized (10 mg/kg ketamine (HCI) and unanesthetized (1.5 mg/kg ketamine HCI) animals. Ketamine had no significant effect on blood pressure. Indirect measurements from the brachial artery were compared with direct femoral artery measurements and with each other. Systolic blood pressures measured by the Doppler (r = .948) and Infrasonde (r = .920) methods correlated closely with direct measurements but were significantly lower than systolic blood pressures measured by the direct method. Diastolic blood pressures measured by the Infrasonde method agreed closely with direct measurements (r = .947). Systolic blood pressures measured by the indirect methods correlated closely in both anesthetized (r = .973) and unanesthetized (r = .834) animals and were not significantly different. Mean blood pressures calculated from direct and Infrasonde measurements also correlated closely (r = .963), with direct measurements being 4 mmHg higher on the average. Mean blood pressures are less influenced by methodology and are more reproducible than other pressures. These noninvasive methods can be used to obtain simple and accurate measurements of blood pressure from anesthetized and unanesthetized monkeys and are of value in long-term studies in monkeys.

Copyright © 1985 Wiley‐Liss, Inc., A Wiley Company.

Keywords: African green monkeys; Cercopithecus aethiops; Doppler ultrasound; guenons; infrasonic blood pressure instrument; vervets

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