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

      Nyachieo, A; Spiessens, C; Chai, D C; Kiulia, N M; Mwenda, J M; D’Hooghe, T M (Department of Biochemistry, 2009-04)
        Baboon in vitro fertilization requires capacitated sperm in appropriate media. In this study, we compared the effect of baboon serum (Bas), human serum albumin (HSA) and bovine serum albumin (BSA) on baboon sperm ...
    • Separate and combined effects of caffeine and dbcAMP on olive baboon (Papio anubis) sperm 

      Atunga, Nyachieo; Carl, Spiessens; Chai2, Nicholas M. Kiulia2, Jason M. Mwenda2, Thomas M. D’Hooghe; Daniel, C Chai; Nicholas, M. Kiulia; Jason, M. Mwenda; Thomas, M. D’Hooghe (University of Nairobi,College of Health Sciences,, 2010-06)
      Background  Improvement of baboon sperm capacitation is necessary for achieving high in vitro fertilization (IVF) rates in baboons. In this study, we evaluated separate and combined effects of caffeine and dbcAMP on baboon ...