Magnetic cell sorting is a fast and effective method of enriching viable spermatogonia from Djungarian hamster, mouse, and marmoset monkey testes

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 582-589

  Von Schönfeldt, Viktoria ^a   Krishnamurthy, Hanumanthappa ^a   Foppiani, Luca ^a   Schlatt, Stefan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STEM CELL FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL ISOLATION; CELL SELECTION; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL SUSPENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIPLOIDY; DNA CONTENT; FLOW CYTOMETRY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MAGNETIC CELL SORTING; MALE; MARMOSET; NONHUMAN; PHODOPUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPERMATOGONIUM; TESTIS;

ANIMALS; CALLITHRIX; CRICETINAE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOMAGNETIC SEPARATION; LIGHT; MALE; MICE; MICROSPHERES; PHODOPUS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-KIT; RABBITS; SPERMATOGONIA; TESTIS;

ANIMALIA; CRICETINAE; MARMOSETS; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; PHODOPUS; PHODOPUS SUNGORUS;

EID: 0344246939     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod61.3.582     Document Type: Article

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