Researchers plan to assess the new modified antigen against other candidates in advanced strep throat vaccine tests
in nonhuman primates beginning later this year in Atlanta, Georgia, funded by the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia.
Eventually, these defenders conceded that evolutionary roots of certain cherished human cognitive abilities could indeed be found
in nonhuman animals, but only in large - brained mammals, particularly in apes.
Analysis of long - term safety
testing in nonhuman primates, published online by the journal Cell Stem Cell, revealed that, after one year following transplant, umbilical cord blood units treated with a signaling molecule called 16,16 - dimethyl PGE2 reconstituted all the normal types of blood cells, and none of the animals receiving treated cord blood units developed cancer.
The
findings in nonhuman primates are encouraging, says Nicholas Dainiak, director of the Radiation Emergency Assistance Center / Training Site at the Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education, who was not involved in the study.
For a concise, well - organized overview of male parental care
in nonhuman mammals and different human societies, check out Chapter 17 in Melvin Konner ’s
«Results described in this manuscript provide a comprehensive characterization of the efficacy of the PMO antisense platform against Marburg
virus in nonhuman primates and its safety profile in humans,» Bavari said.
The authors say it's one of the most complex and rapid patterns of cultural evolution across a region ever observed
in a nonhuman species.
We have seen that research
in nonhuman experience corroborates Whitehead's epistemological scheme in which perception takes the two forms of causal efficacy and presentational immediacy, propositions and concepts are primarily nonlinguistic, feeling is the dominant mode of world - and self - disclosure, and animals experience both morally and aesthetically.
Upon graduation she entered the field of biomedical research as a clinical veterinarian
specializing in nonhuman primate medicine and surgery.
The researchers are planning to test this method to deliver HIV
vaccines in nonhuman primates, and they are also working on further developing cancer vaccines, including one for lung cancer.
The drug has already demonstrated
safety in nonhuman primate trials, and the cardiovascular research might even be able to skip ahead to a larger phase II trial based on safety data from the ongoing phase I studies, Leeper suggests.
Clinical trials to treat neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's have a historically high failure rate, partially because potential drugs are derived from
research in nonhuman models.
Alterations in diurnal cortisol rhythm and acoustic startle
response in nonhuman primates with adverse rearing
One such cocktail, known as MB - 003, has demonstrated
efficacy in nonhuman primates infected with the virus.
Also, the dampened daily rhythms of cortisol
seen in the nonhuman primates with hippocampal damage resemble those reported in first - episode schizophrenia patients.
Still, trying the
therapy in nonhuman primates and then implementing it in the affected countries in West Africa makes sense, Bausch says.
Developing this
technology in nonhuman primates in the U.S. would allow more scientists in this country to incorporate these models into their research, he added.
If this could be
used in nonhuman primates and combined with behavioral analyses, we may make real progress toward understanding psychiatric disorders or autism - related disorders.
On the origins of human handedness and language: a comparative review of hand preferences for bimanual coordinated actions and gestural
communication in nonhuman primates.
Also, we have no evidence of pure self -
consciousness in nonhuman beings, though both the neurological and behavior complexity of cetaceans and perhaps elephants require us to leave this question open.
Long - term species - specific studies of lateralization
in nonhumans are required to determine if pawedness shifts over time or varies with context, experience and genetic predisposition.
To be a person is to possess certain essential qualities and capacities which do not belong to any
things in the nonhuman world.
But increasingly researchers in this field are coming to agree that careful observation also requires an acknowledgement of the emotion, meaning and
purpose in nonhuman experience.
«Human beings can not think or
move in nonhuman ways: given what we are, we must think and move «anthropomorphically.»»
And if you have a background in biology and evolution — and are seriously interested in the evolution of
parenting in nonhuman animals — Clutton - Brock's 1991 textbook,
They begin with a brief overview of
fatherhood in nonhuman primates and a discussion of how anthropologists are reconstructing the family life of our ancestors.
Unfortunately, this long - standing belief has possibly resulted in a strong bias in the literature, whereby studies uncovering any leftward
asymmetry in nonhuman primates are much more likely to be published in leading journals.
Three or four spider species live in most North American homes, and they all tend to be found either tending their webs or
hunting in nonhuman - infested areas.
The research team developed a vaccine effective against Ebola Zaire with a single
dose in a nonhuman primate model.
The sophistication of these systems in infants resembles that of
modules in nonhuman primates, suggesting an ancient, evolutionary development; a six - month - old baby understands numbers, space, objects and faces much as a mature rhesus monkey does.
Taken together, the results of efficacy testing
conducted in nonhuman primates and safety testing performed in a Phase I clinical trial suggest that AVI - 7288 has the potential to be used to treat Marburg virus infection in humans when administered post-exposure, according to the authors.
Several drugs and vaccines have shown
promise in nonhuman primates, but none of them have successfully made it through phase I human trials.
Words are the basic building blocks of human language, but they are hardly ever found
in nonhuman vocal communication.
The simian foamy virus — so - called because of its foamy appearance under a microscope — is one of three known
retroviruses in nonhuman primates.
The researchers said more study is needed to determine if astrovirus
infections in nonhuman primates are associated with clinical disease, or whether such infections are asymptomatic.
Other studies show that one function of serotonin is the promotion of slow - wave
sleep in nonhuman mammals, she adds, and it may do the same for humans.
«Repeated anesthesia in infancy increases anxiety - linked
behavior in nonhuman primates: Subtle behavioral changes persisting after 3x sevoflurane exposure.»