"Waste" follicular aspirate from fertility treatment - A potential source of human germline stem cells?

Stem Cells and Development

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 11-14

  Boon, Chin Heng ^a   Cao, Tong ^a   Bested, Soren Müller ^b   Guo, Qing Tong ^c   Soon, Chye Ng ^c  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b Camden Medical Centre ^*  (Singapore)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASPIRATION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FERTILIZATION; GRANULOSA CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; OVARY; OVARY FOLLICLE; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIMORDIAL GERM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEM CELL;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 14744277160     PISSN: 15473287     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/scd.2005.14.11     Document Type: Article

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