Real-time observation of transplanted 'green germ cells': Proliferation and differentiation of stem cells

Development Growth and Differentiation

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 105-112

  Ohta, Hiroshi ^a   Yomogida, Kentaro ^a   Yamada, Shuichi ^a,b   Okabe, Masaru ^a   Nishimune, Yoshitake ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Germ cell; Green fluorescent protein; Mouse; Transplantation

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; CELL COMPARTMENTALIZATION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL TRANSFORMATION; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; GERM CELL; HAPLOTYPE; MEIOSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS CELL; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MALE; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; STEM CELLS; TESTIS; TIME FACTORS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0034081225     PISSN: 00121592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-169X.2000.00495.x     Document Type: Article

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