Isolation of Highly Pure and Viable Primordial Germ Cells from Rainbow Trout by GFP-Dependent Flow Cytometry

Molecular Reproduction and Development

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 91-100

  Kobayashi, Terumasa ^a   Yoshizaki, Goro ^a,b   Takeuchi, Yutaka ^a   Takeuchi, Toshio ^a  

^a TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF MARINE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

FACS; Flow cytometry; GFP; Light scattering property; Primordial germ cell; Transgenic

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL GRANULE; CELL ISOLATION; CELL POPULATION; CELL SHAPE; CELL VIABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENE CONTROL; GENE SEQUENCE; GERM CELL; LIGHT SCATTERING; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAINBOW TROUT; SOMATIC CELL; SURVIVAL RATE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; CELL SEPARATION; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GERM CELLS; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MALE; ONCORHYNCHUS MYKISS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RNA HELICASES;

ONCORHYNCHUS MYKISS; SALMONIDAE;

EID: 0344153726     PISSN: 1040452X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrd.20003     Document Type: Article

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