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The effect of two cyclic enkephalin analogs (IVS-43 and IVS-46) on the group and individual behavior of rhesus macaques and hamadryas baboons has been studied. A pronounced influence of IVS-46 on competitive and operant goal-directed behavior of the monkeys was identified.
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I. P. Pavlov Institute of Physiology, Saint Petersburg. Translated from Zhurnal Vysshei Nervnoi Deyatel’nosti imeni I. P. Pavlova, Vol. 44, No. 4-5, pp. 682–690, July–October, 1994.
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Silakov, V.L., Nikitin, V.S., Moiseeva, L.A. et al. Influence of neuropeptides on the processes of higher nervous activity in primates. The action of cyclic analogs of enkephalins on the behavior of the lower monkeys. Neurosci Behav Physiol 25, 386–392 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02359595
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