Faculty Research 1980 - 1989

Lactose intolerance in the stumptail macaque (Macaca arctoides): case report.

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1980

Keywords

Anthropoidea, Blood-Glucose: an, Case-Report, Diarrhea: di, ve, Lactose-Intolerance: di, ve, Lactose-Tolerance-Test: ve, Macaca, Monkey-Diseases: di, SUPPORT-U-S-GOVT-P-H-S

First Page

80

Last Page

84

JAX Source

Lab-Anim-Sci. 1980 Feb; 30(1):80-4.

Abstract

A female stumptail macaque had signs of intermittant diarrhea and chronic weight loss over a 2-year period during which she was fed a commercial laboratory maintenance diet. Intolerance of this individual to lactose, a ubiquitous constituent of most commercial primate diets, was diagnosed on the basis of lactose tolerance tests and favorable clinical response to dietary carbohydrate substitution with glucose. Oral administration of varying doses of glucose to this animal consistently produced elevations in plasma glucose concentrations exceeding 20 mg/dl, while orally-administered doses of lactose did not cause significant elevations in blood glucose concentrations.

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