Functional assessment of self-renewal activity of male germline stem cells following cytotoxic damage and serial transplantation

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 68, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1801-1807

  Kanatsu Shinohara, Mito ^a   Toyokuni, Shinya ^a   Morimoto, Takeshi ^a   Matsui, Shigeyuki ^a   Honjo, Tasuku ^a   Shinohara, Takashi ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Developmental biology; Gametogenesis; Sertoli cells; Spermatogenesis; Testis

Indexed keywords

BUSULFAN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL REGENERATION; CELL RENEWAL; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXICITY; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; GAMETOGENESIS; GERM LINE; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SERTOLI CELL; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOGONIUM; STEM CELL; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; TESTIS;

ALKYLATING AGENTS; ANIMALS; BUSULFAN; GERM CELLS; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; INDICATORS AND REAGENTS; KINETICS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; REGENERATION; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOGONIA; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; STEM CELLS; TESTIS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0242417010     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.102.012575     Document Type: Article

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