Clonal organization of proliferating spermatogonial stem cells in adult males of two species of non-human primates, Macaca mulatta and Callithrix jacchus

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 72, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 293-300

  Ehmcke, Jens ^a   Luetjens, Craig Marc ^b   Schlatt, Stefan ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Gamete biology; Spermatogenesis

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL CLONE; CELL CYCLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SIZE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CLONOGENESIS; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUORESCENCE; GAMETOGENESIS; MACACA; MALE; MARMOSET; NONHUMAN; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE EPITHELIUM; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOGONIUM; STEM CELL;

ANIMALS; ANTIMETABOLITES; BROMODEOXYURIDINE; CALLITHRIX; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; MITOSIS; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULES; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOGONIA; STEM CELLS;

EID: 12344285882     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.104.033092     Document Type: Article

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