Sentences with phrase «of rhesus»

Effects of prenatal nicotine exposure on primate brain development and attempted amelioration with supplemental choline or vitamin C: Neurotransmitter receptors, cell signaling and cell development biomarkers in fetal brain regions of rhesus monkeys
Every night, hordes of rhesus monkeys invade government buildings in New Dheli.
Great book called the Machiavellian Intelligence by Dario Maestripieri describes human behavior thru the behaviors of the rhesus.
The Upper Room by Chris Ofili was exhibited at the Victoria Miro gallery in 2002: it consists of thirteen paintings, each of a rhesus macaque monkey, installed in a purpose - built room designed by David Adjaye.
The Upper Room is an installation of 13 paintings of rhesus macaque monkeys by Ofili in a specially designed room.
The life - span of rhesus monkeys in the wild is unknown.)
In one 23 - year study of rhesus monkeys published in 2012, the average lifespan of the monkeys was not extended by restricting overall calorie intake.
This summer, the centers also began initial sequence production for creating a reference version of the genome of the rhesus macaque, which is a monkey that is widely used in studies of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection.
The human brain (1400 g) is 15 times the volume of the rhesus monkey (90 g), 700 times the volume of the rat (2 g) and 2,300 times the volume of the mouse brain (0.6 g).
Neurodegenerative disorders Sheep's brains are much larger than those of rodents, similar in size to the brain of a rhesus macaque, and with the complex folds that are seen in primate brains.
On pp. 677 — 688 of the current issue of Cell Metabolism, Rhoads et al. integrated large - scale data from the hepatic transcriptome, proteome, and metabolome of rhesus monkeys after 2 years on a 30 % calorie - restricted diet to reveal multi-modal mechanisms driven by calorie restriction to rewire metabolism.
Ticks were allowed to feed to repletion on the backs of rhesus macaques for infection (Panel A).
Functional characterization of rhesus embryonic stem cell - derived serotonin neurons.
Preclinical evaluation of adult stem cell engraftment and toxicity in the CNS of rhesus macaques.
Then, in 2003, a group of scientists at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine made an important discovery while studying the cloned embryos of rhesus monkeys.
PHE owns on - site breeding colonies of rhesus and cynomolgus macaques.
SV 40 is a virus of rhesus macaques which is oncogenic in experimental animals.
In 2006, scientists cloned the first primate embryos of a rhesus monkey.
Despite its canine focus, the Soviet Union and its successor state Russia did launch a number of rhesus monkeys to space in the 1980s and 1990s, as part of a program called Bion.
Now, thanks to a multi-year study of rhesus macaques monkeys, researchers have found genetic changes caused by stressful environments are likely contributing to that...
As I know from my work with free - ranging infant wild baboons in Kenya — monkeys that have a social organization similar to that of the rhesus — this regimen results in a terrible distortion of the animals» natural way of life.
Researchers from a set of international universities are working together to save an invaluable scientific resource that was badly damaged in Hurricane Maria — a population of rhesus monkeys living on a remote island — and the staff and facilities that support them.
Interestingly, none of the 133 rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta) housed in the same building became sick during the outbreak, and neither did any of the Old World monkeys from surrounding outdoor colonies of rhesus and cynomolgus macaques (Macaca fascicularis).
Curious about how monkey onlookers respond to these tantrums, primatologist Stuart Semple of Roehampton University in London and colleagues followed a wild troop of rhesus monkeys on Cayo Santiago, an island off the coast of Puerto Rico.
In the first, Platt and colleagues looked at the foraging behaviors of rhesus macaques, a non-human primate species the researchers have studied both in the lab and in the wild.
There's the clutching reaction of the rhesus monkey, in which the female generally reaches back with one hand and grasps the male, sometimes turning and looking over her shoulder at the presumed moment of his climax — which, if it does indicate a female eruption as well, would leave people in the dust when it comes to simultaneous orgasms.
Now, Terasawa, Brian Kenealy (who earned his doctorate in Terasawa's lab) and colleagues have worked out just how important by studying the brains of rhesus macaque monkeys who'd had their ovaries removed.
Despite this long separation from the rest of the primates, they now have something in common with a group of rhesus macaques in Puerto Rico and capuchin monkeys living at Yale: They all contribute to Santos's wide - ranging study of our primate relatives, offering an unparalleled glimpse into our evolutionary past.
Now a research team led by investigators at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) in collaboration with the U.S. Military HIV Research Program has demonstrated that the viral reservoir is established strikingly early after intrarectal simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) infection of rhesus monkeys and before detectable viremia.
The research team, led by the University of California, Davis, came to this conclusion after developing a new technique for comparing the proteome — all detectable proteins — of human milk with the proteome of the rhesus macaque monkey.
Human breast milk contains extra nutritional elements compared to that of rhesus macaque monkeys, UC Davis and Harvard researchers find.
Human babies appear to need more of a nutritional boost from breast - milk proteins than do infants of one of their closest primate relatives, suggests a study comparing human milk with the milk of rhesus macaque monkeys.
In one example, scientists linked the brains of rhesus macaque monkeys, who worked together to control the movements of the arm of a virtual avatar on a digital display in front of them.
Given that the brain and cognitive capabilities of rhesus monkeys are similar to those of humans, mixed selective neurons should also be important in our own brains.
The study chronicles the use of Vasalgel ™ in groups of rhesus macaques — confirming previous preclinical findings in rabbits on the efficacy of the new device and offering a new tool to colony managers.
This neon swirl was inspired by the neural architecture of a rhesus macaque brain, used by Modha to help him design the chip.
To gain more insight into neural computing, Modha has mapped the brain of the rhesus macaque monkey, which is similar to our own.
The study of rhesus macaques showed some of the monkeys remain socially isolated for much of their lives, suggesting their isolation is caused by a persistent trait or traits.
It prevents haemolytic disease of the newborn due to rhesus iso - immunisation of a rhesus negative mother by a rhesus positive foetus.
Human breast milk contains extra nutritional elements compared to that of rhesus macaque monkeys, UC Davis and Harvard researchers find.
Human babies appear to need more of a nutritional boost from breast - milk proteins than do infants of one of their closest primate relatives, suggests a study comparing human milk with the milk of rhesus macaque monkeys.
Indeed, George once observed that the primitive stasis of the rhesus monkey was largely due to the fact that once a male rhesus obtained senior status «he didn't have to do anything to get laid.»

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85 % of our world population has this RH + POSITIVE Factor in their blood type,,,, Its the RHesus Monkey Antigen / Protein, for that is the ONLY reason anyone's blood type would be either O +, A +, B + or AB +.
Rachels has described an experiment with rhesus monkeys in which not only did monkeys refrain from eating for many days in order not to shock another monkey, but the willingness to undergo such hunger was correlated with (1) whether or not the monkeys had been cagemates and (2) whether or not the hungry monkey had itself been in the situation of the monkey undergoing the shocks.
Golub administered epidural bupivacaine to pregnant rhesus monkeys at term, and followed the development of the exposed offspring to age 12 months (equivalent to four years in human offspring).
Psychologist Harry Harlow conducted a number of controversial experiments on social isolation in rhesus monkeys which demonstrated the devastating effects of disrupting early attachments.
The development of antibodies against Rh positive blood is called rhesus disease and occurs in 16 % of Rh negative women if not given the anti D injection.
If rhesus disease is present then the level of sensitisation will determine the level of monitoring or interventions needed.
By showing the devastating effects of deprivation on young rhesus monkeys, Harlow revealed the importance of a caregiver's love for healthy childhood development.
Then in 1950 Harry Harlow did a series of horribly memorable experiments [the content is disturbing] with baby rhesus monkeys.
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