Of course they've sensationalized clinical trials by playing to the lowest common denominator, and disparaging all clinical trial participants as "guinea pigs" and "test monkeys".
Toshiba USA recently launched an ad campaign for their new Satellite Ultrabook laptops featuring a so-called "professional medical tester" posing as a "guinea pig" and "test monkey".
"He calls me the test monkey," Bob Bryan said of Mike.
To evaluate primate susceptibility, we tested monkeys from 2 genera.
Whatever the reason for the unilaterality may be, it seems specific to gaze following as testing the same monkey in a passive face perception task to delineate the face patch network did not reveal any major hemispheric differences.
All neurons were tested as monkeys tracked a target spot that moved with a step-ramp trajectory over dark background.
Both monkeys, however, were significantly more likely to break fixation during LL trials as compared to HH trials (LL trials: monkey A, 2.73%+/−0.13; monkey T, 3.19+/−0.35; HH trials: monkey A, 1.77%+/−0.12; monkey T, 1.66%+/−0.27; two-sample t-test, monkey A, p<10∧-4, monkey T, p<0.002).
The study produced a voluminous set of data proving that the TgPVR21 mice, inoculated with OPV samples into the lumbar cord, provided a test for neurovirulence of OPV as sensitive and reproducible as the monkey test.
At each postoperative performance test, each monkey completed 11 sessions, the first postoperative session being half as long as a regular session and the final 10 sessions constituting the performance test.
Further evidence may come from tests in monkeys.
