Rhesus Macaque

the United States were in a competition which started with the first artificial satellite (Sputnik 1). In addition, both the Soviet Union and the United States wanted to the next step. Send a human into space. According to the text, ¨In 1948, a rhesus macaque monkey named Albert flew inside a V2 rocket. In 1957,

fighting this infection. In addition, previous studies have shown that type 1 interferons (IFNs) ability to decrease the morbidity and mortality rate has mixed results. Recently other studies have found that IFN-beta have increased survival rate in rhesus macaques drastically. Furthermore, the combination of type I IFN with three monoclonal antibodies (Mabs) has a robust defense against a lethal dose of the infection, but either one alone cannot do any good on its own. The combination or interferon gamma

Could Vaccinating Children Save Their Lives? So far in the year of 2016 alone there have been fifty-four people from sixteen states who reportedly contracted measles. This is down drastically from 2015 where 189 people from twenty-four states were reported with measles (U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services). This is largely due to an outbreak at Disneyland which spread throughout the country. With all of the vaccinations available one would think this would be an uncommon occurrence, unfortunately

virus, type 3) (8). A consensus was reached in May 1986 by the International Committee on the Taxonomy of Viruses, and the name HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus) was adopted (9). Outbreaks of wasting and severe infections were also observed in rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta) by researchers at the California Regional Primate Research Center

primates of a link between maternal psychological functioning and later development in offspring? In studies done on rhesus monkeys, DiPietro found that those exposed to many periods of loud noise produced offspring that showed delayed motor development and reduced attention in infancy, they also found that those negative behaviors continued throughout adolescence. In the macaques they found that prenatally stressed males were less mature than non-prenatally stressed males and the opposite occurred

the virus is mostly now. The virus could affect some of the athletes competing in the summer olympics this year. The virus is spreading quickly through misquotes. When the virus started In 1947, scientists researching yellow fever placed a rhesus macaque in a cage in the Zika Forest zika meaning "overgrown" in the Luganda language, near the East African Virus

Harry Harlow: a Revolutionary Who Changed Child-Rearing Practices in Industrialized Countries Harry Harlow remains a controversial figure. He was extremely influential in behavioral and cognitive psychology as well as psychoanalysis which he strongly criticized, but some of his experiments with moneys were cruel and insensitive. The animal rights movement in the United States grew partly in response to the manner Harlow experimented with monkeys. His revolutionary influence, however, cannot be downplayed

This study was all over visual illusion. The experimenters wanted to figure out if rhesus or capuchin monkeys saw the “Delboeuf Illusion” in the same perception as humans do. In experiment one, the task was to choose the larger of two dots, which sometimes had rings around them. Humans had evidence of the illusion, yet the monkeys did not. In experiment two, the two groups were required to classify a dot by its size: small or large. The “Delboeuf illusion” was found in both species this time. In

In February 1997, it was announced that Ian Wilmut and other researchers at the Roslin Institute in Edinburgh, Scotland, had succeeded in creating the first cloned mammal, a sheep named Dolly. A controversy quickly arose over the moral aspects of cloning, particularly regarding the issue of human cloning. Hardly any researchers have advocated human “reproductive” cloning; rather, they have generally argued for the development of human “therapeutic” cloning, which may someday yield important medical

Institute for Behavioral Research] and was given a tour.... I saw filth caked on the wires of the cages, faces piled in the bottom of the cages, urine and rust encrusting every surface. There, amid this rotting stench, sat sixteen crab-eating macaques and one rhesus monkey, their liv limited to metal boxes just 17 3/4 inches wide.... [An old refrigerator] had been converted into a chamber containing a plexiglass immobilizing chair. A monkey would be placed in a chamber, and electrodes attached to his