Michael Owston

ORCID: 0000-0002-2107-5883 · 4 papers in corpus
lab-animal 2016
Oncotarget ·doi:10.18632/oncotarget.7516

Endometriosis is a chronic estrogen-dependent disease that occurs in approximately 10% of reproductive age women. Baboons offer a clear benefit for studying the initiation and progression of endometriosis since baboon is very close to human…

other 2016
Veterinary pathology ·doi:10.1177/0300985815620654

Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) have served as an important model for studies of reproductive diseases and aging-related disorders in humans. However, limited information is available about spontaneously occurring reproductive tract lesions i…

other 2014
Journal of medical primatology ·doi:10.1111/jmp.12101

BACKGROUND: We report the causes of mortality for 4350 captive baboons that died or were euthanized due to natural causes during a 23 year period at the Southwest National Primate Research Center. METHODS: Necropsy records were retrieved a…

other 2011
Journal of medical primatology ·doi:10.1111/j.1600-0684.2010.00463.x

BACKGROUND: Baboons are useful animal models for biomedical research, but the natural pathology of the baboon is not as well defined as other non-human primates. METHODS: A computer search for all morphologic diagnoses from baboon necropsi…