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Monkey Virus Identical to HIV Endemic in Gorillas

...ple worldwide are living with HIV/AIDS. Although monkeys in Africa infected with simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) are said to be the source of two of the three strains of the virus in humans the source of the third has been unknown, until now. Martine Peeters, a virologist at the University of Montpel...

Ebola-Outbreak Kills 5000 Gorillas

...l different vaccines have now protected laboratory monkeys from Ebola and major vaccine labs are anxious to help. Rather, "Uncertainty about whether a large Ebola control effort was necessary or even possible has paralyzed large donors and major conservation organizations," said Peter Walsh, a co-author from...

Limited Calorie Intake Holds the Key to Delay Ageing

Recent research done on rhesus monkeys shows that ,limiting calorie intake may actually h...rtant defensive cells in the immune system. Rhesus monkeys are said to be closely akin to human beings in their immune response mechanisms. These findings refl...

Britain Scientists Support the Use of Primates in Research

...high standards of welfare are maintained." Using monkeys will be critical for further breakthroughs in a ra... report's emphasis on the more-humane treatment of monkeys and on the development of alternatives, it failed to satisfy anti-vivisectionist groups, which want ...

Drawing Parallels to H5N1 Virus and a 1918 Flu Virus

...ndition on seven macaque monkeys. The lungs of the monkeys were damaged within a week. A rush of body fluids ...e experiment was expected to last for 21 days, the monkeys found it very difficult to breathe. This combined with fever and pain made the researchers kill the ...

Research on Vaccine Against Ebola Virus

... the benefit of certain human communities who hunt monkeys to consume their flesh. JYT...

Secret to AIDS Resistance Is in the Blood

...pecific marker in the blood and tissues of certain monkeys may be part of the key to understanding how they c...these cells. Pandrea found that the AIDS–resistant monkeys had fewer CD4 cells with CCR5 on them than the comparison group. As a result, the viruses do less da...

E. Coli Bacteria Migrating Between Humans, Chimps

...er non-human primates. Human diseases also pass to monkeys and apes, with equally dire consequences: Pneumonia, respiratory disease, scabies and a polio-like virus have caused epidemic mortality in chimpanzees in some African locales. Source-Bio-Bio Tecnology SRM...

Biologists Trace Cause Of Early Blindness To Tissue Defect

...ng what’s important. “Most people think of mice, monkeys and other furry animals, rather than fish, when they think of research subjects for human diseases,” Perkins says. “An advantage of zebrafish is the ability to inexpensively perform forward genetic screens. Using chemicals, we can induce random mutat...

Harmful Effects Of Glucocorticoids On Newborns Owing To Prenatal Exposure

...gh in UK that when nonhuman primate African vervet monkeys (Chloroceus aethiops) //in their prenatal stage we... offspring born to nonhuman primate African vervet monkeys treated with dexamethasone from mid-gestation onward did not differ from that of offspring born to u...

Neural Stem Cells Reduce Parkinsons Symptoms in Monkeys

...ad and limb tremors. In this study five of eight monkeys with advanced Parkinsons were injected with human ...stem cells and three received sham injections. The monkeys were observed four months before and four months after surgery. Those injected with human neural s...

Stem Cell Transplants Ease Parkinson's Symptoms in Monkeys

...fully eased the symptoms of Parkinson's disease in monkeys with the help of human stem cell transplants . D...eafter, they injected the cells into the brains of monkeys with a severe form of chemically induced Parkinson's disease. Before the treatment, the monkeys c...

New Respiratory Virus in Children Linked to Cancer Discovered

... it had been linked to brain tumours in laboratory monkeys but debate continued about whether the viruses were also associated with respiratory tumours. Prof Sloots said the development of a vaccine from scratch could take between 15 and 20 years. 'What we need to do first of all is identify how the vi...

Color Vision Drove Primates to Develop Red Skin and Hair, Study Finds

...food choice and color vision while studying howler monkeys in Costa Rica. He recently compiled data on the color vision, social and sexual habits and red skin and pelage of 203 different primate species. The researchers then used a phylogenetic tree representing the evolutionary relationships among all the...

Our Ancestors Possessed Much Smaller Brains Than It was Thought

...of a modern lemur's. "This means the big-brained monkeys and apes developed their large brains at a later point in time, said Simons, a professor of biological anthropology and anatomy at the university. Simons said he originally overestimated Aegyptopithecus' likely brain size based on the original 1966...

Very Soon You can Eat to Your Hearts Content

... easily carried in blood. Studies in both mice and monkeys show that when cholesterol is altered by ACAT2, it is more likely to build up in blood vessel walls and cause atherosclerosis. Rudel hopes to get funding to repeat the study in monkeys. "If it works in monkeys, it would be proof of concept that ...

Estrogen Therapy Protects Against Fading Mental Powers: Study

...pause are similar to those of humans. All of the monkeys had their ovaries removed to induce menopause. The...ent story in the older animals. The older rhesus monkeys that got the estrogen boosters performed as well as the younger animals, whereas the older untreated...

Ancient Viral Defense may Explain Susceptibility to HIV: Study

...hat PtERV1 infected chimps, gorillas and old world monkeys four million years ago but left no traces of having infected humans. Our theory is that this is because humans had this innate viral defense system," said Michael Emerman, a virologist at the center. To test their theory, Emerman and his team painsta...

Animal Research Uncovers Another Mechanism of Cholesterol Lowering Drug

...s. The researchers hope to study the question in monkeys and said more research is needed to see if the drug increases gallstone formation in some people. Until more research is done in animal models that naturally express the protein, it is difficult to say whether this would apply to humans, said Yu....

Taiwan Bans Circuses from Importing Protected Animals

...ts of animals such as lions, tigers, elephants and monkeys are prohibited unless they are needed for research, said Tien Chiu-chin, of the ruling Democratic Progressive Party, who proposed the bill. The new law categorises the banned animals in line with the requirements of the Convention on International ...

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