Isolation of highly purified type A spermatogonia from prepubertal rat testis

Journal of Andrology

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 708-717

  Morena, Anna Rita ^a   Boitani, Carla ^a   Pesce, Maurizio ^b   De Felici, Massimo ^b   Stefanini, Mario ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

c kit; cell culture; cell separation; Type A spermatogonia

Indexed keywords

AGGLUTININ; STEM CELL FACTOR RECEPTOR; VIMENTIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL ISOLATION; CELL VIABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; FETAL CALF SERUM; GERM CELL; MALE; NONHUMAN; PREPUBERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SOMATIC CELL; SPERMATOGONIUM; TESTIS;

ANIMALS; CELL SEPARATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CELLS, CULTURED; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-KIT; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RNA, MESSENGER; SEXUAL MATURATION; SPERMATOGONIA; TESTIS;

EID: 0030456865     PISSN: 01963635     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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