Sentences with phrase «rhesus macaques for»

Ticks were allowed to feed to repletion on the backs of rhesus macaques for infection (Panel A).

«Caloric restriction» makes worms, flies and mice live longer, so to see if it works for primates, a team led by Richard Weindruch of the University of Wisconsin - Madison monitored 76 rhesus macaques for 20 years.

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For this, two rhesus macaques were trained to repeatedly grasp 50 different objects.

In their research with rhesus macaques, it was found that the three brain areas AIP, F5 and M1 that are responsible for planning and executing hand movements, perform different tasks within their neural network.

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.

The collaborative international research also shows that skin coloration in male and female rhesus macaques is an inherited quality — the first example of heritability for a sexually - selected trait to be described in any mammal.

Using these images and 20 years of genetic parentage data, the researchers assessed whether the variation in red ornaments influenced fecundity — that is they produced more offspring — and is heritable in male and female rhesus macaques, two necessary conditions for the trait to be considered under sexual selection.

Earlier this year, a team at Emory University in Atlanta, Georiga, announced that a kidney from a genetically engineered pig had sustained a rhesus macaque monkey for more than 400 days before being rejected, breaking the record by more than 250 days.

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.

The group also gave five rhesus macaques a single injection, and found that it conferred protection on four of them for at least five weeks afterwards (Nature, doi.org/bx8n).

Four U.S. representatives — prompted by an aggressive ad campaign by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, which claimed that baby rhesus macaques at the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development lab of Stephen Suomi were being ripped from their mothers at birth and being mentally traumatized — called on NIH to conduct a bioethical review of the lab.

Whole blood from rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta) housed at the Tulane National Primate Research Center was used for CD4 + T cell isolation and ZFN treatment.

All rhesus macaque experiments were approved by the Tulane Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee approval (Protocol P0085; Project 3520) The Tulane National Primate Research Center (TNPRC) is an Association for Assessment and Accreditation of Laboratory Animal Care accredited facility (AAALAC # 000594).

In addition, we checked for TMAdV in rectal swab samples from rhesus macaques housed in the same building as the titi monkeys (n = 26) and in pooled droppings from wild rodents (n = 2) living near the titi monkey cages.

To explore a potential link between the outbreak and associated illness in humans, we blindly tested available sera from titi monkeys (n = 59), rhesus macaques housed in the same building (n = 36), CNPRC personnel and close contacts (n = 20), and random human blood donors (n = 81) for evidence of recent or prior infection by TMAdV by virus neutralization (Fig. 6).

For my masters project I studied the relationship between sociality and fitness in the rhesus macaque through non-invasive markers of immune activation and HPA axis function.

The researchers, led by UW — Madison pathology Professor David O'Connor, published a study today (June 28, 2016) in the journal Nature Communications describing their work establishing rhesus macaque monkeys at the Wisconsin National Primate Research Center as a model for studying the way Zika virus infections may progress in people.

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.

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.