Sentences with phrase «rhesus monkeys»

1947: Scientists identify a new virus in rhesus monkeys in Uganda; first human cases detected in Uganda and Tanzania five years later.

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.

Earlier studies on rhesus monkeys showed similar success.

Zika virus can persist in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), lymph nodes and colorectal tissue of infected rhesus monkeys for weeks after the virus has been cleared from blood, urine and mucosal secretions, according to a study published online in Cell.

A new study suggests that female rhesus monkeys engage in a kind of baby talk, casting doubt on the long - held belief that the behavior is exclusively human.

First, a researcher trained rhesus monkeys to pull a lever to avoid electroshock after hearing a specific sound.

Using young rhesus monkeys in our model of anxious temperament is critical as brain structure and function in non-human primates closely resembles that of humans.»

To find out if neurons indicate the planning of the future visualized movement or the physical movement, the neuroscientist worked with rhesus monkeys which were shown mirrored images of their hand movements during parts of the experiment.

«In Harlow's classic experiment, two groups of baby rhesus monkeys were removed from their mothers.

It wasn't until 2013 that Shoukhrat Mitalipov of the Oregon Health and Science University finally made SCNT work in humans, through careful tweaking and fine - tuning based on experiments with more than 1,000 rhesus monkey eggs.

Hauser himself, a professor of psychology, human evolutionary biology, and organismic and evolutionary biology at Harvard and codirector of the school's Mind / Brain / Behavior Initiative, has analyzed the antics of tamarins, vervet monkeys, macaques, and starlings in captivity, as well as rhesus monkeys and chimpanzees in the wild.

The verdict, from a 25 - year study in rhesus monkeys fed 30 % less than control animals, represents another setback for the notion that a simple, diet - triggered switch can slow ageing.

Many other primates including rhesus monkeys, baboons, and gorillas also acquire plaques with aging, but tau tangles are either absent in those species or don't fully resemble those seen in humans.

In a study led by Michigan State University, scientists have shown that gene editing using CRISPR / Cas9 technology can be quite effective in rhesus monkey embryos ¬ - the first time this has been demonstrated in the U.S.

In that sense, rhesus monkeys use baby talk just like we do, the team reports in the September issue of Ethology.

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.

«Successful application of male contraceptive in monkeys: New contraceptive provides effective birth control in rhesus monkey groups for more than one year.»

HIV, the virus that causes AIDS in humans, can not infect rhesus monkeys even though they are biologically similar to us.

However, according to Dr. Joseph Mercola, there are peer reviewed studies showing that Bt - toxin does bind with mouse small intestines and with intestinal tissue from rhesus monkeys.

Sixteen adult male rhesus monkeys received intravas injections of Vasalgel.

Although female rhesus monkeys don't baby talk to their own young, they make pantlike grunts and high - pitched, melodic nasal sounds called girneys when near other baby monkeys.

One of his first experiments involved injecting rhesus monkey fetuses with radioactive thymidine at a particular stage of development.

Today rhesus monkey infants are still forcibly separated by laboratory researchers from their mothers and stressed in ways that leave them physically and emotionally traumatized.

Effects of early life experience on cortisol / salivary alpha - amylase symmetry in free - ranging juvenile rhesus monkeys [abstract].

18 Other studies indicate that chimps but not rhesus monkeys are able to recognize themselves on television (CSPS 211).

Based on evidence from rodent studies, researchers used eight rhesus monkeys ranging in age from 5 to 10 years (approximately equivalent to humans from 15 to 30 years of age).

The researchers put rhesus monkey in a similar situation.

To investigate further, Sarah Short and Chris Coe at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, infected 12 pregnant rhesus monkeys with mild flu.

Another study with rhesus monkeys showed discrepancies between the «research record» and the 2007 published paper, in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B.

We next attempted to culture TMAdV in an A549 (human lung adenocarcinoma) cell line, a BSC - 1 (African green monkey kidney epithelial) cell line, and PMK (primary rhesus monkey kidney) cells (Fig. 5).

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.

I wasn't quite sure what it meant, and I thought I knew everything about propionic acid — a short - chain saturated fatty acid produced in the gut from the fermentation of resistant starch, but I Googled it one more time just for shits and grins, and sure enough — the first search result turned up a breaking news story about propionic acid and increased tail length in juvenile rhesus monkeys.

Physiological and behavioral adaptation to relocation stress in differentially reared rhesus monkeys: Hair cortisol as a biomarker for anxiety - related responses

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).

The findings help to explain why mice live only about two to three years on average, rhesus monkeys about 25 years, and humans 70 or 80 years.

Uscinski traced medical citations in SBS research back to a 1968 study involving rhesus monkeys subjected to collisions and violent accelerations.

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In one version of his experiment, newborn rhesus monkeys were separated from their birth mothers and reared by surrogate mothers.

The vaccine consists of human viral proteins inserted into a similar virus affecting rhesus monkeys.

A classic study in 1964 found that hungry rhesus monkeys would not take food they had been offered if doing so meant that another monkey received an electric shock.

Several days after receiving an oral dose of LCV, two rhesus monkeys came down with swollen lymph glands and elevated levels of a type of white blood cell, CD23 + B lymphocytes — a classic sign of early stages of EBV infection in people.

The viral disease was first isolated in 1947 from a sick rhesus monkey in the Zika Forest of Uganda and only caused small outbreaks in Africa and Southeast Asia for more than 50 years.

«Many people have tested rhesus monkeys for self - recognition, and nobody has ever found compelling evidence,» he notes.

What's more, once rhesus monkeys in the study developed mirror self - recognition, they continued to use mirrors spontaneously to explore parts of their bodies they normally don't see.