Ultrastructural and immunocytochemical analysis of diploid germ cells isolated from fetal rabbit gonads

Zygote

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 47-60

  Moens, André ^a,c   Fléchon, Bernadette ^a   Degrouard, Jéril ^a   Vignon, Xavier ^a   Ding, Jianchi ^b   Fléchon, Jacques Edmond ^a   Betteridge, Keith James ^b   Renard, Jean Paul ^a  

^a CEMAGREF   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Immunocytochemistry; Rabbit fetal germ cells; Ultrastructure

Indexed keywords

MAMMALIA; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS;

ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CYTOLOGY; DIPLOIDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ENZYMOLOGY; FEMALE; GONAD; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; METABOLISM; OOCYTE; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; RABBIT; SPERMATOZOON; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELLS, CULTURED; DIPLOIDY; FEMALE; GONADS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; OVUM; PREGNANCY; RABBITS; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 0031062537     PISSN: 09671994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0967199400003555     Document Type: Article

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