The Monkey Alcohol Tissue Research Resource

(MATRR)
The primary goal of this site is to build the resources of a tissue bank and associated bioinformatics to
analyze and distribute appropriate tissue samples to the alcohol research community. This resource
provides novel data for hypothesis testing relating the risk for and consequences of alcohol consumption
and serve to bi-directionally bridge the gap between rodent and human studies. The basis of the MATRR is
that non human primates, specifically monkeys, show a range of drinking excessive amounts of
alcohol. more...

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Poster: Overview of MATRR

Primate Portal: Resources for nonhuman primate research

NIAAA: National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism

ONPRC: Oregon National Primate Research Center

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 Discriminative Stimulus Effects and Metabolism ..., Alcoholism, clinical and

experimental research, 2019.
 Voluntary Chronic Heavy Alcohol Consumption ..., Alcoholism, clinical and
experimental research, 2019.
 MADRID, Oct 20: World No 4 Andy Murray cruised to his
second successive Masters Series title by blasting France’s
Gilles Simon out of the Madrid Masters 6-4, 7-6 on Sunday.
 Neither player matched the heroics of Saturday’s semi-finals w hen
the Scot beat Roger Federer and Simon defeated Rafael Nadal, and in
an attritional baseline battle, Murray’s rock-solid serve gave the tired
Frenchman few chances.
 The 21-year-old Briton struck 10 aces to just one in reply from world
No 16 Simon, who failed to manufacture one break point on Murray’s
service in a match lasting 93 minutes.
 The 23-year-old from Nice had played for almost 12 hours in the five
previous rounds — double his opponent’s court time — and Murray
seemed happy to wait for a tired Simon to make the mistake as the
two traded baseline blows in rallies often lasting 20 shots or more.
 ARTICLE CONTINUES AFTER AD
 The first set turned in the sixth game when Murray put the pressure
on Simon’s serve before forcing the Frenchman into a mishit drive.
The shot was symptomatic of Simon’s match as his powerful
forehand, so effective in a 3-1/2 hour epic against No 1 Nadal, failed
to fire.
 Murray slapped down four aces to close out the first set, and although
Simon pressed harder in the second, he never once went to deuce on
the Scot’s towering service.
 Only when the set went to a tiebreak did Simon threaten.
 Murray hit a drop shot but Simon successfully chased it down and
clubbed a cross court winner for a 6-4 lead. Again Murray played the
drop shot but the Scot escaped as Simon’s reply landed just wide.
 A thumping winner off a tame Simon serve brought up championship
point which he converted after Simon dumped a volley into the net.
 Murray, who won the previous Masters Series tournament in
Cincinnati in August, became the first Briton to win two Masters
Series titles.
 Simon moved to within one place of the eight-man Masters Cup
tournament in Shanghai next month, with the Paris Masters at the
end of the month his best chance of stealing Juan Martin del Potro’s
eighth spot.
 VENUS VICTORIOUS
 ZURICH: Venus Williams defeated unseeded Italian Flavia
Pennetta 7-6, 6-2 in Sunday’s Zurich Open final to all but
 guarantee the American a place at the season-ending WTA
Championships in Doha.
 Third seed Williams, who had lost her last three meetings
with Pennetta, took full control of their latest encounter
after rampaging through the first set tiebreak 7-1.
 Sunday’s victory will lift Williams comfortably clear of
rivals Vera Zvonareva and Agnieszka Radwanska in the
race for the last two Doha qualifying spots when the latest
standings are published on Monday.
 Radwanska, in the worst position of the trio, will now have
to win both the remaining tournaments in Linz and Quebec,
where she is not currently entered, to deny Williams a place
at the finale.
 Chasing only her second title of the year, following her
latest Wimbledon victory in July, Williams was made to
work hard during Sunday’s opening stages with neither
player offering up a single break point during the first set.
 The subsequent tiebreak proved surprisingly one-sided,
however, with Williams storming into a 6-0 lead after
forcing two early errors from her opponent with a couple of
powerful groundstrokes directly to Pennetta’s feet.
 After losing the tiebreak, Pennetta could find no way back.
 Dropping her serve for the first time in the third game of
the second set, she then had to watch as Williams fired in
four straight aces to lead 3-1.
 Following a further break of the Italian’s serve, Williams
was denied her first chance to wrap up the match when a
Pennetta backhand on match point which looked long was
controversially ruled in.
 Williams kept her cool, hitting a fierce winner to the corner
of the court before producing a final service winner.
 Pennetta had been looking to become the third woman to
win four consecutive matches against Williams, a feat so far
managed only by Lindsay Davenport and Williams’s
younger sister Serena.
 Pennetta is also now on course for an invite to Doha as one
of the alternates kept on standby in case of injury to any of
the top eight.—Reuters