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Michel Ferin, M.D
This female monkey, #88N182, has blood running down her face from her "cap" implant, which was performed in March 2003. She arrived at Columbia in 1994 and has been caged since then in conditions bereft of any environmental enrichment.
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Professor
Dept. of Physiology & Cellular Biophysics
212-305-3711
212-305-3869 (fax)
mf8@columbia.edu
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Michel Ferin is a professor of physiology and obstetrics and gynecology at Columbia University's College of Physicians & Surgeons. His experiments are aimed at everything from figuring out how stress affects the menstrual cycle and reproduction to conditions specific to premenopausal women. Unfortunately, all his experiments are conducted on female rhesus macaques instead of on women. In the first in a series of eight experiments in protocol #2951, Ferin explains, "[T]he animal will be fitted with a cap anchored on the headbone. The cap is connected to a tether, which itself is attached to a swivel on top of the cage. The set-up allows full movement of the animal within its cage. The animal is then moved, for a period of 12 days, to a room different from housing. At the end of the challenge period, the monkey is returned to its previous housing location and the cap and tether are removed. To induce an inflammatory stress, we will, as previously, administer endotoxin . on a daily basis. This simulates a flu-like syndrome in the first 2 days, with some loss of appetite in the first day."
Very few women have large weights surgically attached to their skulls, but they do suffer from various other types of stress that could be studied if scientists wanted to get an idea of how human stress affects human reproductivity.
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