S Darshan Manoj, Sandhiya Venkatesan, Sudha Ramalingam
Awareness on cosmetic-related health hazards and measures to address them among service providers of beauty salons
Journal of family medicine and primary care
cholinergic innervation frontal cortex important higher cognitive functions may altered humans relative species support humanspecific intellectual capacities evaluate hypothesis conducted quantitative comparative analyses choline acetyltransferaseimmunoreactive axons cortical areas 9 32 4 among humans chimpanzees macaque monkeys area 9 dorsolateral prefrontal cortex involved inductive reasoning specific components working memory processes area 32 medial prefrontal cortex implicated theory mind area 4 primary motor cortex also evaluated directly associated higher cognitive functions findings revealed quantitative species differences three cortical areas examined indicating human cognitive specializations related quantitative increase cortical cholinergic input however speciesspecific morphological specializations observed clusters cholinergic fibers may indicative cortical plasticity events present chimpanzees humans macaques significant morphology noted common distinctive oval ovoid perisomatic staining macaque cortices feature also sporadically observed chimpanzee cortex findings suggest potential alteration cortical cholinergic afferents within prefrontal cortex humans chimpanzees exclusion macaque monkeys