Outflow facility was measured in 20 anesthetized vervet monkeys by two techniques; both involved the recording of the rate of inflow of fluid from a reservoir connected to the anterior chamber. In the flrst technique the pressure in the anterior chamber was periodically raised and lowered, while the extraocular venous pressure was not changed. In the second technique the intraocular pressure wa...

INTRODUCTION Though animal-related injuries and fatalities have been documented throughout the world, the variety of attacks by wild animals native to rural East Africa are less commonly described. Given the proximity of our northwestern Tanzania hospital to Lake Victoria, Lake Tanganyika, and the Serengeti National Park, and presentation of several patients attacked by bush animals and sufferi...

Obese women exhibit decreased fertility, high miscarriage rates and dysfunctional corpus luteum (CL), but molecular mechanisms are poorly defined. We hypothesized that weight gain induces alterations in CL gene expression. RNA sequencing was used to identify changes in the CL transcriptome in the vervet monkey (Chlorocebus aethiops) during weight gain. 10 months of high-fat, high-fructose diet ...

Hereditary angioedema (HAE) is a rare genetic disorder characterized by recurrent episodes of debilitating and potentially fatal swelling in various parts the body including face, hand airways. Prophylactic treatment options for HAE patients have dramatically improved recent years, significantly reducing frequency attacks overall disease burden but all require chronic, life-long administration....

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A buffer solution containing I-albumin was washed to and fro through the anterior chamber of vervet monkeys gioen I-albumin systemically. The rate of outward flow of I-albumin and the accumulation of 'I-albumin in the solution were determined. In 5 monkeys the concentration of 'I-albumin in the newly formed aqueous was calculated to be an average 3 per cent of that in plasma for several hours. ...

For more than a century, the blue structural colours of mammalian skin have been hypothesized to be produced by incoherent, Rayleigh or Tyndall scattering. We investigated the colour, anatomy, nanostructure and biophysics of structurally coloured skin from two species of primates - mandrill (Mandrillus sphinx) and vervet monkey (Cercopithecus aethiops) - and two species of marsupials - mouse op...

The African green monkey has previously been found to be a promising model for the study of atherosclerosis. We have compared the plasma and HDL cholesterol response to dietary manipulation in the two subspecies of African green monkeys (vervets and grivets) most often imported for biomedical research purposes. Twenty vervets and 20 grivets were fed, in succession, diets containing safflower oi...

An endogenous, immunoreactive digoxin-like factor (endoxin) was measured in the plasma of nonhuman primates with hypertension. Both normotensive and hypertensive rhesus monkeys had levels of endoxin that significantly correlated with their systolic or diastolic blood pressure. Vervet monkeys with experimentally produced chronic Goldblatt hypertension had significantly elevated endoxin, but not ...