Concern as revived 1918 flu virus kills monkeys
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A study report about the 1918 influenza virus, which caused the monkey's immune systems to go into overdrive causing immune proteins to be expressed at abnormally high levels and attack the body, is discussed. The research suggests that 1918 flu might work in similar way to other viruses such as West Nile that could cause a massive auto-immune reaction. It is also found that a change of only one or two amino acids in the flu sequence is enough to stop transmission.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 2007
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Fatal immunity and the 1918 virus
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The effects of the reconstructed 1918 influenza virus in monkeys which link the unprecedented lethality of the 1918 pandemic virus to an aberrant innate immune response is presented. The findings reveal that the pandemic 1918 virus had a genetic composition and rapid replication kinetics that might have resulted in an excessively vigorous innate immune and inflammatory response that contributed to severe tissue damage, disease and death.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 2007
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Live birth after ovarian tissue transplant: fresh pieces of monkey ovary remain fully functional even when moved to a new site
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The first successful fertilization and pregnancy to follow egg collection from fresh transplanted ovarian tissue in a primate is focused. The successful transplantation of fresh ovarian tissue to a different site in a monkey, leading to the birth of a healthy female, is described.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 2004
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