Sentences with phrase «rhesus disease»

If rhesus disease is present then the level of sensitisation will determine the level of monitoring or interventions needed.

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.

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It prevents haemolytic disease of the newborn due to rhesus iso - immunisation of a rhesus negative mother by a rhesus positive foetus.

Discovered in Uganda in 1947 in a rhesus monkey (during an infectious - disease study), the virus was found in humans a decade later in Nigeria.

At a Society of Toxicology meeting last week in Reston, Virginia, three groups presented data showing that rhesus monkeys fed severely calorie - restricted diets show fewer signs of diseases associated with advancing age, including diabetes, heart disease, and cancer, than their comfortably full — and in some cases comparably lean — counterparts.

And research in rhesus monkeys suggests similar benefits in primates: One study found that monkeys eating 30 percent less than their cage mates appeared to be protected from age - related diseases and had lower mortality 15 to 20 years later.

Thus, in vitro enhancement assays lacked the ability to predict flavivirus disease severity in the rhesus macaque model.

A549 (human lung adenocarcinoma) and BSC - 1 (African green monkey kidney epithelial) cell lines as well as PMK (primary rhesus monkey kidney) cells are routinely maintained at the Viral and Rickettsial Disease Laboratory (VRDL) branch of the California Department of Public Health.

DNA was obtained from a blood stage infection of an Indian rhesus macaque donor with P. cynomolgi M strain stocks originally provided by Dr. Bill Collins from the Center for Disease Control, Atlanta.

In this report, we describe the variations in serum antibody responses and disease manifestations in rhesus macaques infected with B. burgdorferi by tick bite.

CR can lower the prevalence of age - related loss of function and multiple diseases, including tumors, cardiovascular disease, neurodegeneration, and protects against diabetes, cancer, cardiovascular disease, sarcopenia, and neurodegeneration of certain brain regions in rhesus monkeys (31).

The impact of the full program (prenatal and infancy home visitation) on children's use of alcohol and number of sexual partners is important because recent evidence indicates that alcohol use prior to age 15 years multiplies the risk of alcoholism in adulthood26 and multiple partners increase the risk for sexually transmitted diseases, including human immunodeficiency virus infection.27, 28 The effect of the program on alcohol use is consistent with greater alcohol consumption observed among adult rhesus monkeys who experienced aberrant rearing.29 These findings must be tempered, however, with an acknowledgment of their limitations.