Transplantation of germ cells from glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor-overexpressing mice to host testes depleted of endogenous spermatogenesis by fractionated irradiation

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 66, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 1579-1584

  Creemers, L B ^a   Meng, X ^a   Den Ouden, K ^a   Van Pelt, A M M ^a   Izadyar, F ^a   Santoro, M ^a   Sariola, H ^a   De Rooij, D G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Developmental biology; Growth factors; Male reproductive tract; Spermatogenesis; Testis

Indexed keywords

GLIAL CELL LINE DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; TYROSINE KINASE RECEPTOR; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; GDNF PROTEIN, HUMAN; GDNF PROTEIN, MOUSE; GLIAL CELL LINE DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR RECEPTOR; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; ONCOPROTEIN; PROTEIN RET; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; RET ONCOGENE PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; RET PROTEIN, MOUSE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GERM CELL; GLIA CELL; IONIZING RADIATION; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE EPITHELIUM; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOGONIUM; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; HUMAN; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; METABOLISM; NUDE MOUSE; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SPERMATOZOON; TESTIS; TRANSPLANTATION;

ANIMALIA; MUS MUSCULUS;

ANIMALS; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GLIAL CELL LINE-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; GLIAL CELL LINE-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR RECEPTORS; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; MICE; MICE, NUDE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; NERVE GROWTH FACTORS; PHENOTYPE; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-RET; RECEPTOR PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEMINIFEROUS EPITHELIUM; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOA; TESTIS;

EID: 0035993001     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod66.6.1579     Document Type: Article

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