(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.
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Definition:
(n.) A species of macaque (Macacus pileatus) native of India and Ceylon. It has a crown of long erect hair, and tuft of radiating hairs on the back of the head. Called also capped macaque.