Sentences with phrase «with rhesus»

Some factors influencing the effect of temporary mother — infant separation: some experiments with rhesus monkeys

How gene — environment interactions shape biobehavioral development: Lessons from studies with rhesus monkeys

So in his work with rhesus macaques, Schwartz developed an array of 100 electrodes that eavesdrops on 100 neurons in the motor cortex.

Your research with rhesus macaques in Puerto Rico suggests that they are capable of discerning human intentions.

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.

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

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.

I like to think it has something to do with our relationship with rhesus monkeys.

Zoologist Robert Hinde conducted several experiments with rhesus monkeys in which he studied their emotional and behavioural reactions to separation from their mothers, as well as their interactions with other monkeys.

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.

Not exact matches

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.

Then in 1950 Harry Harlow did a series of horribly memorable experiments [the content is disturbing] with baby rhesus monkeys.

NEW DELHI — Armed with a government order and escorted by police, animal activists yesterday seized and released into the wild 50 rhesus monkeys being used for testing a new drug.

Learning to deal with and respond to the media attention that a Wastebook mention can generate is valuable in and of itself, notes Tommy Blanchard, a data scientist at Fresenius Medical Care in Waltham, Massachusetts, whose graduate work studying rhesus macaques» decision - making made the cover of the 2014 Wastebook.

Four rhesus monkeys infected with the virus all survived after receiving the drug for seven days, starting 30 minutes after infection

The rhesus monkeys later learned to walk on a treadmill with robotic legs controlled by their brains.

In a huge study of female rhesus macaques, a scientist from the University of Exeter found those with many close female relatives have better life expectancy.

In January 2008, working with the Computational Brain Project of the Japan Science and Technology Agency, Nicolelis took another step forward, this time with Idoya, a rhesus monkey trained to walk upright on a treadmill for treats.

In the latest study, investigators at NIH's National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) infected six rhesus macaques with MERS - CoV and, eight hours later, treated half of them with the two - drug regimen.

A dominant rhesus with a full belly may let a subordinate take away his meal, says Irwin Bernstein, a University of Georgia psychologist, and a female bored by her alpha male may slip away for a fling with a hot young beta.

To understand further the neuropathologic effects of Bb infection, researchers infected 12 rhesus macaques with live B. burgdorferi; two animals were left uninfected as controls.

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.

In recent experiments, Hugo Merchant and his colleagues at the National Autonomous University of Mexico tried to train rhesus monkeys to tap a button in sync with a metronome.

«Florida's monkey river: Anthropologists studied human interaction with a colony of feral rhesus macaques living on the Silver River in central Florida.»

«The basic biology of caloric restriction in rodents, worms, flies and yeast seems to carry over to primates, so we have a real opportunity to dissect that mechanism, look at how we can work with that basic biology, and benefit all those human primates who are so closely related to our rhesus monkeys.»

To gain further insight into these concerns, Dr. Michael McCracken of the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Maryland, and colleagues infected 25 rhesus macaques with Zika virus.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Infection researchers from the German Primate Center (DPZ)-- Leibniz Institute for Primate Research have in cooperation with international colleagues tested a new vaccination strategy against the HIV - related simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) in rhesus monkeys.

The researchers gave the drug to 10 rhesus monkeys and compared them with five control monkeys.

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.

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

In the new study, three rhesus macaques were inoculated with the vaccine, dubbed «4pox.»

As the American human spaceflight program began to build momentum, the nation started experimenting with chimpanzees, which are larger and more closely related to humans than are rhesus, squirrel or other monkeys.

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.

The researchers introduced this extra gene, designed to be regulated in a way that is similar to normal huntingtin genes, by injecting rhesus macaque oocytes with a viral vector.

Utilizing a range of MOIs of 600, 1000, and 2000 we observed mean ccr5 and cxcr4 disruption levels of 19.6 % and 14.0 %, respectively (Figure 7), which suggests that adoptive therapy of cells modified with ZFNs is feasible to model in rhesus macaques.

Alpha male status and availability of conceptive females are associated with high glucocorticoid concentrations in high - ranking male rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta) during the mating season.

An earlier preclinical study found that rhesus monkeys that were vaccinated with ZPIV developed a strong immune response and were protected against two strains of Zika virus.

CMMT (a rhesus macaque mammary tumor line) infected with the amphotropic retroviral vector LT4SN to express human CD4.

Age - related decreases in SYN levels associated with increases in MAP - 2, apoE, and GFAP levels in the rhesus macaque prefrontal cortex and hippocampus.

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.

«The rhesus genome was built with 2006 technology,» he said.

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.

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

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

Ten male Indian rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta), aged 2 — 3 years were subjected to infection with B. burgdorferi by nymphal Ixodes scapularis tick feeding.

Guido Silvestri, MD, division chief of Microbiology and Immunology at the Yerkes Research Center at Emory, and several of his research colleagues performed the first hematopoietic stem cell transplantation in three rhesus macaques infected with a simian human immunodeficiency virus (SHIV).