Very limited clinical studies of growth hormone derived from an old world monkey, the Rhesus macaque, were conducted by John C. Beck and colleagues in Montreal, in the late 1950s.

Rhesus incompatibility, however, generally worsens with successive pregnancies, and so does not fit with the pattern of Anne's pregnancies, as her only son to survive infancy, William, Duke of Gloucester, was born after a series of stillbirths.

Rhesus was their king and Dolon described Rhesus ’ horses in this manner ; " His horses are the finest and strongest that I have ever seen, they are whiter than snow and fleeter than any wind that blows ".

The Rhesus blood type was first discovered in 1937 by Karl Landsteiner and Alexander S. Wiener.

They did not name this blood group antigen, but it was subsequently found to be the Rhesus factor.

The first ever monkey astronaut was Albert, a Rhesus Monkey, who on June 11, 1948 rode to over on a V2 rocket.

It was the first American animal spaceflight, carrying the Rhesus monkey Sam ( Macaca mulatta ) close to the edge of space.

Rhesus incompatibility ( a difference in blood groups ) between mother and baby is largely preventable, and was the most common cause for exchange transfusion in the past.

In 1926 they disproved Hideyo Noguchi's hypothesis that yellow fever was caused by the bacterium Leptospira icteroides, and in 1928 ( the year after the disease was identified conclusively as a virus ), they showed that the African and South American viruses are immunologically identical ( after Adrian Stokes induced yellow fever in Rhesus monkeys from India ).

He found the virus was not transmittable to Rhesus monkeys, and that only some mice developed symptoms.

" There was a Rhesus 1, who had failed Lord Nebula, and was destroyed ( though he was eventually reborn as a being called the Glyph ).

Lord Nebula made it clear that this was a possibility for Rhesus 2 if he also failed him.

Tetra ( born October 1999 ) is a Rhesus macaque that was created through a cloning technique called " embryo splitting ".

In following year, the team produced another Rhesus macaque, named Andi, who was the first genetically modified monkey.

Bruce Chown, ( November 10, 1893 – July 3, 1986 ) was a Canadian scientist who researched the blood factor known as the Rhesus factor and helped produced a Rh immune vaccine, Rh gamma globulin, which helps to prevent Erythroblastosis fetalis.

Although the infecting parasite was initially identified as P. falciparum, one day later it was then identified as P. malariae and it was only confirmed to be P. knowlesi after infected blood was used to inoculate Rhesus monkeys.

Rhesus or Rhêsos () was a Thracian king who fought on the side of Trojans in Iliad, Book X, where Diomedes and Odysseus stole his team of fine horses during a night raid on the Trojan camp.

This first night mission demonstrates another side of these two kings where they employed stealth and treachery along with might and bravery but more importantly fulfills one of the prophecies required for the fall of Troy: that Troy will not fall while the horses of Rhesus feed upon its plains ( According to another version of the story, it had been foretold by an oracle that if the stallions of Rhesus were ever to drink from the river Scamander, which cuts across the Trojan plain, then the city of Troy would never fall.

His deceits include those used to steal the Palladium and king Rhesus ' horses.

The BPRC houses Rhesus Macaques and Marmosets to be used in biomedical research involving AIDS, malaria, hepatitis, tuberculosis and auto-immune diseases.

Thus for example two extant plays, The Phoenicean Women and Iphigenia at Aulis, are significantly corrupted by interpolations ( the latter possibly being completed post mortem by the poet's son ) and the very authorship of Rhesus is a matter of dispute.

After he tells the two all the information that they wanted he is decapitated by Diomedes before the two head off into the Trojan camp to wreak havoc, slaying Rhesus, king of Thrace, and stealing his valuable horses.

* Rhesus ( play ), the Ancient Greek tragedy thought to have been written by Euripides

In 2012, researchers reported that initial infection of Rhesus monkeys by neutralization-resistant SIV strains could be partially prevented through use of an anti-SIV < sub > SME543 </ sub > vaccine obligately including Env protein antigens.

It is very rare for the first Rhesus positive baby of a Rhesus negative woman to be affected by Rh disease.

In Caucasian populations about 13 % of Rhesus negative mothers are sensitized by their first pregnancy with a rhesus positive baby.

Diagram of the BCI developed by Miguel Nicolelis and colleagues for use on Rhesus monkeys

" Alcestis is, possibly excepting the Rhesus, the oldest surviving work by Euripides, although at the time of its first performance he had been producing plays for 17 years.

A study of Rhesus Monkeys begun in 1987 by the National Institute on Aging published results in August 2012 that found evidence of health benefits, but did not demonstrate increased median lifespan.

As early as 1976, researchers at the NIH led by Edward Schmidt made action potential recordings of signals from Rhesus monkey motor cortexes using immovable " hatpin " electrodes, including recording from single neurons for over 30 days, and consistent recordings for greater than three years from the best electrodes.

Odysseus and Diomedes stealing Rhesus ' horses, red-figure pottery | red-figure situla by the Lycurgus Painter, ca.

Later writers provide Rhesus with a more exotic parentage, claiming that his mother was one of the Muses ( Calliope, Euterpe, or Terpsichore ), his father the river god Strymon, and he was raised by fountain nymphs.

Rhesus arrived late to Troy, because his country was attacked by Scythia, right after he received word that the Greeks had attacked Troy.

Rhesus the Thracian king was himself associated with Bithynia through his love with the Bithynian huntress Arganthone, in the Erotika Pathemata for Love " by Parthenius of Nicaea, chapter 36.

Hirszfeld was the first to foresee the serological conflict between mother and child, which was confirmed by the discovery of the Rhesus factor.

The first pregnancy with a Rhesus positive baby is significant for a rhesus negative woman because she can be sensitized to the Rh positive antigen.

Even higher disease rates would occur in the 3rd and subsequent Rhesus positive infants of rhesus negative woman.

It is part of modern antenatal care to give all Rhesus D negative pregnant women an anti-RhD IgG immunoglobulin injection at about 28 weeks gestation ( with or without a booster at 34 weeks gestation ).

Rhesus monkeys also show the Thatcher effect ( Adachi, et al., 2009 ), raising the possibility that some brain mechanisms involved in processing faces may have evolved in a common ancestor 30 + million years ago.

Rhesus may refer to:

Of these, eighteen or nineteen have survived complete ( there has been debate about his authorship of Rhesus, largely on stylistic grounds ) and there are also fragments, some substantial, of most of the other plays.

Rhesus macaques have on average 50 vertebrae.

Rhesus macaques have specialized pouch-like cheeks, allowing them to temporarily hoard their food.

Many non-caucasian peoples have a very low proportion who are Rhesus negative, so the incidence of Rh disease is very low in these populations.