Computer assisted image analysis to assess colonization of recipient seminiferous tubules by spermatogonial stem cells from transgenic donor mice

Molecular Reproduction and Development

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 142-148

  Dobrinski, Ina ^a   Ogawa, Takehiko ^a   Avarbock, Mary R ^a   Brinster, Ralph L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Morphometry; Mouse; Spermatogonia; Testis; Transplantation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE; SPERMATOGENESIS; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ANIMALS; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULES; SPERMATOGONIA; STEM CELLS;

EID: 0032930617     PISSN: 1040452X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2795(199906)53:2<142::AID-MRD3>3.0.CO;2-O     Document Type: Article

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