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The new standards would affect everything from the location of light switches to the height of retail service counters, to the use of monkeys as "service animals" for people with disabilities, which would be forbidden.
Last week, Sir David Attenborough and the primatologist Dame Jane Goodall called for an end to the use of non-human primates in certain neuroscience experiments, saying medical progress in this area could now be made without the use of monkeys.
We then review the use of monkeys to identify aspects of adverse biomedical consequences that follow excessive alcohol consumption.
However, there are several disadvantages to the use of monkeys, notably costs, infrastructural requirements, and ethical considerations.
"It was an infomercial for the use of monkeys in experiments," says PETA Senior Vice President Kathy Guillermo in Norfolk, Virginia.
The advantages of the use of monkeys over rodents are the following: (1) their CNS developmental changes are similar to those in humans; (2) oseltamivir is converted to Ro 64-8082 by hepatic CES in monkeys as in humans, whereas serum CES activity is high in rodents [[3]]; and (3) monkeys are capable of undergoing serial blood samplings required for estimation of BBB permeability.
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As the current study is the first example of the use of monkey-derived ES cells in EST studies, the ES-specific transcripts are mentioned briefly (see Supplementary Table S3 where the contigs containing >5 ESTs are listed).
RSV, like the other Paramyxiviridae, can infect non-epithelial cells if it can gain access to the receptors on their surface, as demonstrated by the use of monkey kidney cells for RSV culture in vitro.
The highly identical staining patterns of hu5A8 in human and rhesus monkey tissues support the use of rhesus monkeys as a preclinical model for humans.
It could be argued that one reason for this discrepancy is our use of rhesus monkeys, while Ito et al. used cebus monkeys.
"The U.S. is taking its bad habits and its unethical practices to other countries that, in some cases, ban the use of rhesus monkeys," said Mary Beth Sweetland, director of investigations at People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.
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