Captive rhesus macaques are not naturally aggressive, but poor husbandry and handling practices can trigger their aggression toward conspecifics and toward the human handler. The myth of the ...

Although the rhesus monkey is an excellent model of human growth hormone physiology, no developmental survey of serum concentrations of the growth hormone dependent somatomedin, insulin-like ...

We gave 125 I-tyrosylated-C-peptide (I-CP) to 6 pregnant Rhesus monkeys by bolus followed by constant infusion. This resulted in a steady state in the maternal circulation of immunoprecipitable ...

This image shows a mother and an infant rhesus monkey at the California National Primate Research Center at University of California Davis. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for ...

For the last half-century, the rhesus macaque, or the rhesus monkey, revered in Hinduism as ... or being used in pet industries, among other forms of abuse. Now, inexplicably, those protections ...

But starting in 1951, when scientists discovered that rhesus monkey kidneys were ideal for making polio vaccines, hordes of the primates were lured from the Assam jungles to worthy ends in the ...

Blood samples (1 cc) were collected from 25 adult (average age 11. 8 ± 3.5 yr), healthy, non- pregnant, and non-lactating female rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta) according to two protocols. In the ...