RHESUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rhesus mean? 

• RHESUS (noun)
  The noun RHESUS has 1 sense:

1. of southern Asia; used in medical research

  Familiarity information: RHESUS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RHESUS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of southern Asia; used in medical research

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Macaca mulatta; rhesus; rhesus monkey

Hypernyms ("rhesus" is a kind of...):

macaque (short-tailed monkey of rocky regions of Asia and Africa)

 Context examples 

The human and mouse genomes were the first to be studied, and the collection now contains clones from rat, zebrafish, Fugu, Xenopus and rhesus macaque.

(Integrated Molecular Analysis of Genomes and their Expression Consortium, NCI Thesaurus)

The researchers then administered a combination of these antibodies to rhesus macaques and exposed the animals to Zika virus one day later.

(Monoclonal antibodies against Zika show promise in monkey study, National Institutes of Health)

Collaborators administered a lethal dose of Zaire ebolavirus to 4 rhesus macaques, then treated 3 of the animals, beginning a day later, with a mixture of the mAbs for 3 consecutive days.

(Experimental Ebola antibody protects monkeys, NIH)

They include the type species, MASON-PFIZER MONKEY VIRUS, isolated from mammary carcinoma and normal tissues in rhesus monkeys, and several other serotypes of simian type D retroviruses (RETROVIRUSES TYPE D, SIMIAN), all of which cause simian AIDS (SAIDS) and other malignancies.

(Betaretrovirus, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

Now, researchers from the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and their colleagues have shown that simply changing the dose and route of administration from intradermal (ID) to intravenous (IV) greatly increases the vaccine’s ability to protect rhesus macaques from infection following exposure to Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), the bacterium that causes TB.

(Changed route of immunization dramatically improves efficacy of TB vaccine, National Institutes of Health)

Six months after vaccination, the researchers exposed groups of vaccinated rhesus macaques (immunized via ID, AE or IV routes) and a group of unvaccinated macaques to a virulent strain of Mtb by introducing the bacteria directly into the animals’ lungs.

(Changed route of immunization dramatically improves efficacy of TB vaccine, National Institutes of Health)

The NIAID researchers and their colleagues hypothesized that administration of BCG by IV or aerosol (AE) routes would overcome this hurdle and thus confer substantially better protection from infection and/or disease in rhesus macaques following challenge with virulent Mtb.

(Changed route of immunization dramatically improves efficacy of TB vaccine, National Institutes of Health)