Baboon serum is superior to human or bovine serum albumin for baboon sperm capacitation and zona binding

Journal of Medical Primatology

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 145-150

  Nyachieo, A ^a,b   Spiessens, C ^a   Chai, D C ^b   Kiulia, N M ^b   Mwenda, J M ^b   D'Hooghe, Thomas M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b INSTITUTE OF PRIMATE RESEARCH   (Kenya)

Author keywords

Baboon; Capacitation; Serum albumin; Zona binding

Indexed keywords

BOVINE SERUM ALBUMIN; HUMAN SERUM ALBUMIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BABOON; CONTROLLED STUDY; COW; CULTURE MEDIUM; FEMALE; INCUBATION TIME; MALE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE RETRIEVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPERMATOZOON CAPACITATION; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SPERMATOZOON DENSITY; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; SPERMATOZOON PENETRATION; ZONA PELLUCIDA;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; CULTURE MEDIA; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMANS; MALE; PAPIO; SERUM; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SPERM CAPACITATION;

BOVINAE; PAPIO;

EID: 63049128710     PISSN: 00472565     EISSN: 16000684     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0684.2008.00319.x     Document Type: Article

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