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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While he says regulation is necessary to prevent animal abuse, Hunt criticizes efforts to impose further research restrictions at many levels of government. "It becomes difficult because we have so many different agencies involved," he says...
...Although Hunt says relations among this state's researchers, activists and government seem cordial enough to preclude "radical activities," he adds that break-ins by animal rights groups at other animal research facilities concern him. While the secluded Southboro center has not been attacked, Hunt says, "I don't think in any institution you're in a position to have complete security...
...monkey disease, now known as Simian Immunodeficiency Virus (SIV), turned out to be "the very best animal model system to study AIDS," Hunt says...
...Hunt says that although the center was not prepared to do research on immune systems at the time of this discovery, it began to use cultures from the diseased monkeys in research at the center. He says AIDS research now makes up about a quarter of the center's work...
...center's work is in no way restricted to AIDS research, however. Hunt cites another project with implications for the care of delicate animals in captivity--an effort to determine why captive cotton-top tamarinds--an endangered species--often suffer from ulcerative colitis, a disease that can lead to cancer of the colon. The center has received an NIH grant to study this tendency in about 80 of the monkeys. He says it is not known whether this condition exists in the wild...