Sentences with phrase «rhesus macaques showed»

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.

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GOING VIRAL The diversity of viruses carried by such animals as rhesus macaques (one shown) hints at the number of viruses capable of infecting humans that are yet to be discovered.

Previous studies have shown that rhesus macaque skin coloration is involved in mate selection - both males and females show interest in darker red faces displayed in the opposite sex.

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.

But Laurie Santos, a cognitive psychologist at Yale University who has shown that rhesus macaques lack an understanding of false belief, thinks the «paper raises more questions than it provides answers,» especially because there have been «so many past results showing that chimpanzees and other primates lack this capacity.»

This image shows how the AIDS pathogen (yellow) declines in an infected rhesus macaque after receiving antiretroviral drugs.

Researchers have shown that rhesus macaques can do basic arithmetic with numbers and symbols.

After the microbicide showed promise in test - tube experiments, Haase's team moved on to rhesus macaques.

Already, Graham said, VRC researchers have shown that passive immunization with VRC01, one of the broadest and most potent bNAbs identified in recent years, can protect rhesus macaques from virus challenge, adding that VRC01 is now ready to be used in human trials.

A pilot study conducted by S. Narasimhan (Yale University) and M. Philipp showed that multiple tick feedings did not affect transmission in rhesus macaques, but the impact of this on xenodiagnosis was uncertain.

While mice, guinea pigs, dogs, rabbits and monkeys have been used as animal models to study B. burgdorferi infection, rhesus macaques have been shown to most closely recapitulate the multi-organ nature and progression of human LD [26, 27].

The research showed evidence that in rhesus macaques infected with simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV), the monkey form of HIV, loss of IL - 17 producing CD4 + and CD8 + T cells was associated with damage to the colon epithelium and with immune activation (see Monkey Matters, IAVI Report, Nov. - Dec.

During the lecture, Picker discussed his work showing that an extensive treatment with CMV, a persistent virus that stays in the body without causing symptoms, can be used to target and clear SIV, a close cousin of HIV that infects rhesus macaques.

Experimental animal studies have shown that Borrelia burgdorferi, the agent of Lyme borreliosis, consistently establishes persistent infections in a variety of immunocompetent hosts, including laboratory mice [1], white - footed mice (Peromyscus leucopus)[2], [3], [4], rats [5], hamsters [6], guinea pigs [7], gerbils [8], dogs [9], and nonhuman primates, including rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta)[10] and baboons (Papio spp.)[11].