(n.) A genus of African lemurs, including numerous species.
Example Sentences:
(1) Efferent projections of the anterior vermis were studied in a prosimian primate (Galago senegalensis).
(2) The 5' and 3'-flanking regions of the human alpha 1 gene are orthologous to the corresponding region in galago, identifying the human alpha 2 gene as the more recently duplicated gene.
(3) The nidation plaque and its invasive capacity, giving rise to a syndesmochorial placental nucleus, provide a placentological link to Galago demidovii.
(4) A new technique of radio telemetry permitted identification and localization of urine marking in wild galagos.
(5) Galago crassicaudatus and Macaca fasicularus had low disease and high birth rates.
(6) To evaluate these hypotheses, the nucleotide sequence of the mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase subunit II gene was determined from a bushbaby (Galago senegalensis), flying lemur (Cynocephalus variegatus), tree shrew (Tupaia glis), spear-nosed bat (Phyllostomus hastatus), rousette bat (Rousettus leschenaulti), and nine-banded armadillo (Dasypus novemcinctus) and was compared with published sequences of a human, cow, and mouse.
(7) Regions surrounding the single gamma-globin gene of galago and the duplicated gamma 1- and gamma 2-globin genes of gibbon, rhesus monkey, and spider monkey were sequenced and aligned with those from humans.
(8) Three spontaneously occurring tumors are described in dwarf galagos.
(9) SINE transcription was studied by introducing a galago Monomer family member (gal39), into the mouse Ltk- cell line.
(10) Visual resolution and contrast sensitivity were examined in anesthetized, paralyzed galagos using visual evoked potentials (VEPs) resulting from stimulation with phase-reversed sinewave gratings.
(11) An ablation study of the visual cortex of Galago senegalensis was undertaken in the hope of finding clues about the evolution of primate visual cortex.
(12) There is a topographical relationship between origin and termination of rubrospinal fibers in Galago.
(13) Eight years after the initiation of a 4-year regimen of biweekly applications of DMBA plus a cocarcinogen, papillomas, basal cell tumors, and basosquamous cell epidermal tumors with satellite lipomas were observed in galagos (Galago crossicaudatus).
(14) We have discovered several SINE families in the prosimian Galago crassicaudatus which have promoter regions similar to transfer RNA genes.
(15) A septum does occur in Galago senegalensis (Lorisidae) and Microcebus murinus (Cheirogaleidae), so the presence of a septum is not strong evidence favoring a tarsiiform-anthropoidean clade.
(16) Sequence analysis of epsilon and gamma genes and encoded globins and high-pressure liquid chromatography analysis of globin compositions in blood hemolysates obtained from embryos, fetuses and adults show that the prosimian primate Galago crassicaudatus expresses its epsilon and gamma genes only embryonically.
(17) Similar crystalloids have been described in other steroid-secreting organs, including the antebrachial organ of the lemur (Lemur catta), the parotoid gland of Bufo alvarius and in sebaceous gland cells of the Galagos and Macaques.
(18) The human psi alpha 1 gene is found to be inactivated after divergence of the human and galago lineages but prior to the divergence of human and monkey.
(19) The vestibular complex of Galago is larger than in other mammals and some higher primates.
(20) Greater bushbabies (Galago crassicaudatus) remained completely refractory throughout the course of the experiment.
Primate
Definition:
(a.) The chief ecclesiastic in a national church; one who presides over other bishops in a province; an archbishop.
(a.) One of the Primates.
Example Sentences:
(1) The present results provide no evidence for a clear morphological substrate for electrotonic transmission in the somatic efferent portion of the primate oculomotor nucleus.
(2) The p30 proteins of murine viruses also contain a second discrete set of antigenic determinants related to those in infectious primate viruses and endogenous porcine viruses, but not detected in the feline leukemia virus group.
(3) These results demonstrate that the renal nerves play an important role in the nonhuman primate in mediating increases in renal excretion during hypervolemia.
(4) These are much older than all other Fayum, Oligocene primates and are believed to be Eocene in age.
(5) Animals were chronically implanted with epidural or deep recording electrodes and a cannula in one lateral ventricle, and tested whilst seated in a primate chair.
(6) Evaluation of the roles of prolactin and placental lactogen in pregnancy in primates has revealed mammotropic, fetal osmoregulatory, metabolic, and steroidogenic roles, which appear to protect the uterine contents during late pregnancy and prepare the fetus for the changes in nutrition at the time of delivery.
(7) SR 42128 is a potent and long-acting tool for studying the role of the renin angiotensin system in primates and humans.
(8) An analysis of 54 protein sequences from humans and rodents (mice or rats), with the chicken as an outgroup, indicates that, from the common ancestor of primates and rodents, 35 of the proteins have evolved faster in the lineage to mouse or rat (rodent lineage) whereas only 12 proteins have evolved faster in the lineage to humans (human lineage).
(9) Four human and two nonhuman primate cell lines were studied to determine their growth characteristics in soft agar, and for invasive characteristics in a muscle organ culture assay system.
(10) Historically, research into the regulation of gene expression in primate lentiviruses has focused on human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1), the primary cause of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) in humans.
(11) This approximately 40-Myr-old specimen is the first fossil primate found in Burma since the fragmentary remains of the controversial earliest anthropoids Pondaungia cotteri Pilgrim and Amphipithecus mogaungensis Colbert were recovered more than 50 yr ago.
(12) It is believed that by looking at such subtle shape differences an understanding of what it means morphologically for a primate to be either more or less arboreal may be achieved.
(13) Our studies investigated whether social companionship, as a potentially positive psychological intervention, would increase lymphocyte proliferation and natural killer cell activity in the aged nonhuman primate.
(14) The results found with individual chromosomes in the different species also appear relevant, in the light of the evolutionary relationships between these nonhuman primates and man.
(15) In this experiment, 64 crown preparations were made in four primates.
(16) CSF and venous blood lactate, pH, PCO2, PO2, and bicarbonate were measured in five ketamine-anesthetized nonhuman primates, without mechanical ventilation, before and after they underwent infusions of sodium lactate.
(17) These two distinct classes of human pseudogenes provide a molecular record of the history of cytochrome c evolution in primates and demarcate a short period of rapid evolution of the functional gene.
(18) To study this phenomenon, a new model employing 54 primate tendons and stereomorphometric image analysis was used to quantitate adhesion volume after a standardized surface injury.
(19) The composition of the Trichostrongyloidea fauna of Chiroptera and its relationship with Trichostrongyloidea from other Mammals (Tupaiidae, Pholidotes, Primates, Sciuridés) are analysed.
(20) Oregon Regional Primate Research Center, Beaverton, Oregon.