Long-term culture of mouse male germline stem cells under serum- or feeder-free conditions

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 72, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 985-991

  Kanatsu Shinohara, Mito ^a   Miki, Hiromi ^b   Inoue, Kimiko ^b   Ogonuki, Narumi ^b   Toyokuni, Shinya ^a   Ogura, Atsuo ^b   Shinohara, Takashi ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b RIKEN   (Japan)

Author keywords

Developmental biology; Gametogenesis; Sertoli cells; Spermatogenesis; Testis

Indexed keywords

LAMININ;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DIVISION; CELL RENEWAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FERTILITY; FIBROBLAST; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GERM CELL; INFERTILITY; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SERUM; SPERMATOGONIUM; STEM CELL; TESTIS;

ANIMALS; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CELLS, CULTURED; COCULTURE TECHNIQUES; CULTURE MEDIA, SERUM-FREE; FEMALE; FERTILITY; FIBROBLASTS; LAMININ; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED DBA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULES; SPERMATOZOA; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; STEM CELLS;

EID: 15544371145     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.104.036400     Document Type: Article

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