(n.) Any one of several species of short-tailed monkeys of the genus Macacus; as, M. maurus, the moor macaque of the East Indies.
Example Sentences:
(1) Asian macaques are susceptible to fatal simian AIDS from a type D retrovirus, indigenous in macaques, and from a lentivirus, simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV), which is indigenous to healthy African monkeys.
(2) The purpose of the present study was to develop methods for routine identification of the non-compacta subdivisions in the macaque monkey.
(3) This virus was imported on multiple occasions from a Philippine supplier of cynomolgus macaques as a consequence of an epidemic of acute infections in the foreign holding facility.
(4) Ten days later, two animals treated with cyclosporin and one without cyclosporin received at T8 and T10 levels an injection of a cell suspension prepared from the rhombencephalon of a 40-day-old macaque embryo.
(5) Retrograde transport of horseradish peroxidase and immunocytochemical visualization of glutamate (Glu) were combined to investigate the neurotransmitter used by cortico-cortical neurons in the first (SI) and second (SII) somatic sensory areas of macaque monkeys.
(6) The immune activation changes (serum neopterin levels) induced by SIV infection in rhesus macaques appear to be associated with duration of illness, although the number of monkeys observed until death were too few for conclusive data.
(7) The complete amino acid sequence of the macaque proline-rich phosphoglycoprotein (MPRP) was determined by automated Edman degradation of the protein, fragments F-1 and F-2 derived from the protein by an intrinsic salivary protease, and chymotryptic, tryptic, Staphylococcus aureus V8 protease, and endoproteinase lysine-C peptides.
(8) SIV vaccines made of inactivated whole virus, modified live virus and native and recombinant envelope antigens have protected macaques against experimental infection with low doses of cell-free SIV given systemically.
(9) The sites of growth and remodeling, and the associated changes in cortical bone structure, have been studied in the chimpanzee mandible and compared with those previously reported in the human and macaque mandibles.
(10) No blood group polymorphism was revealed by testing bonnet macaque red cells with isoantisera produced in rhesus monkeys (M. mulatta) and in crab-eating macaques (M. fascicularis).
(11) Febrile macaques that survived had leukocytosis, with concomitant neutrophilia.
(12) Second, two macaques or two African green monkey subspecies were as distanly related as the human versus chimpanzee sequences.
(13) The experiments were done in anesthetized macaques (Macaca fascicularis).
(14) Pregnant macaques were used as a natural model for maternal-infant transmission of SRV-2 retrovirus.
(15) We investigated this hypothesis from a developmental perspective by studying the development of these two kinds of visual performance in two groups of infant macaque monkeys (Macaca nemestrina), one normal and one given an experimental strabismus.
(16) We have monitored changes in the simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) envelope (env) gene in two macaques which developed AIDS after inoculation with a molecular clone of SIV.
(17) In a longitudinal study on 13 adult female stumptailed macaques, Macaca speciosa, peripheral blood samples were analyzed hematologically and the in vitro response of the lymphocytes to the common mitogens concanavalin A, phytohemagglutinin and pokeweed mitogen were investigated.
(18) Developmental studies of macaques have shown that psychosocial disruption, including social separations, can result in both immediate and long-term immunological consequences.
(19) Experimental inoculation of macaques with SIV results in a persistent infection that leads to immunodeficiency, opportunistic infections, and death.
(20) Cortical visual area V4 in macaque monkeys has a large proportion of neurons that are sensitive to the wavelength or to the color of light.
Rhesus
Definition:
(n.) A monkey; the bhunder.
Example Sentences:
(1) In 60 rhesus monkeys with experimental renovascular malignant arterial hypertension (25 one-kidney and 35 two-kidney model animals), we studied the so-called 'hard exudates' or white retinal deposits in detail (by ophthalmoscopy, and stereoscopic color fundus photography and fluorescein fundus angiography, on long-term follow-up).
(2) Adult nonpregnant female rhesus monkeys fed purified diets containing 100 or 4 ppm zinc for 1 yr were mated then studied through midgestation.
(3) Rhesus monkey BAT mitochondria (BATM) possess an uncoupling protein that is characteristic of BAT as evidenced by the binding of [3H]GDP, the inhibition by GDP of the high Cl- permeability or rapid alpha-glycerol-3-phosphate oxidation.
(4) One of five rhesus monkeys fed a diet deficient in choline and protein for 31 mo developed signs of cirrhosis at 26 mo.
(5) In this respect, its effects are very similar to those of pooled rhesus monkey aqueous humor during perfusion of rhesus monkey eyes.
(6) The efficacy as an immunizing agent of the Kenyan strain of Schistosoma mansoni against challenge infection in rhesus monkeys was demonstrated.
(7) The immune activation changes (serum neopterin levels) induced by SIV infection in rhesus macaques appear to be associated with duration of illness, although the number of monkeys observed until death were too few for conclusive data.
(8) Serum LH levels in rhesus monkeys are commonly measured by a radioimmunoassay (RIA) utilizing ovine LH as the radioligand and a novel antiserum to ovine LH.
(9) In this controlled study of betamethasone administration to pregnant rhesus monkeys, using dosages per gram of fetal body weight similar to those reported in several human clinical studies, the most significant fetal pulmonary changes observed were increases in maximum lung volumes.
(10) In our studies of metabolic control mechanisms in skeletal muscle from rhesus fetus we have determined the tissue levels of the metabolic intermediates and cofactors of the glycolytic pathway and have calculated the mass-action ratios for each reaction.
(11) If these recordings are repeated before or at the same time as other signs of fetal distress have been found we must think of pathological features such as intrauterine growth retardation, post-maturity, infections, rhesus incompatibility and diabetes.
(12) Maxillary and mandibular incisors and premolars of three rhesus monkeys were used.
(13) Phagocytosis of Francisella tularensis by rhesus monkey peripheral neutrophils (PMN, was assessed by autoradiography, electron microscopy, and biochemical techniques.
(14) A Rhesus monkey was trained to discriminate between 2 acoustic signals, preceded by visual cues, that instructed which of 2 movements to make.
(15) Monolayer cultures of LLC-MK2 rhesus monkey kidney cells become persistently infected with simian virus 40 after infection at input multiplicities of 100, 10, or 1 plaque-forming unit per cell.
(16) In the spinal cord of the rhesus monkey and of the cat paired vessels near the central canal are described.
(17) The numerical density of nerve terminals of the internal carotid artery was measured using interrupted serial sections and compared with densities sampled from the major cerebral arteries of cynomolgus and rhesus monkeys.
(18) The method and the program are illustrated using the leave-one-out method on a sample of N = 12 male rhesus monkeys whose mandibular ramus height was measured five times at yearly intervals.
(19) No blood group polymorphism was revealed by testing bonnet macaque red cells with isoantisera produced in rhesus monkeys (M. mulatta) and in crab-eating macaques (M. fascicularis).
(20) The aims of this study were (1) to investigate culture conditions for optimal IN production by luteinized GC (LGC) from rhesus monkeys and (2) to compare IN and progesterone (P) production by nonluteinized GC (NGC) and LGC in response to putative agonists.