Expansion of murine spermatogonial stem cells through serial transplantation

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 316-322

  Ogawa, Takehiko ^a   Ohmura, Masako ^a   Yumura, Yasushi ^a   Sawada, Hajime ^a   Kubota, Yoshinobu ^a  

^a YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Sperm; Spermatogenesis; Testis

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GERM CELL; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOGONIUM; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; TESTIS; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; CELL DIVISION; GENES, REPORTER; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOGONIA; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; STEM CELLS; TIME FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; MURINAE; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 0037232806     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.102.004549     Document Type: Article

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