Alternative sources of gametes: Reality or science fiction?

Human Reproduction

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 988-998

  Tsai, Ming C ^a   Takeuchi, Takumi ^a   Bedford, J M ^a   Reis, Marcos M ^a   Rosenwaks, Zev ^a   Palermo, Gianpiero D ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Alternative sources; Assisted reproduction; Gametes; Oocytes; Spermatozoa

Indexed keywords

FEMALE INFERTILITY; GAMETE; GENE TRANSFER; GENOME IMPRINTING; HAPLOIDY; INFERTILITY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MALE INFERTILITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NOTE; OOCYTE; SPERMATID; SPERMATOCYTE; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOGONIUM; SPERMATOZOON; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION;

ANIMALIA; ARENA;

EID: 0034110284     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/15.5.988     Document Type: Note

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