Pluripotency of spermatogonial stem cells from adult mouse testis

Nature

Volumn 440, Issue 7088, 2006, Pages 1199-1203

  Guan, Kaomei ^a   Nayernia, Karim ^a   Maier, Lars S ^a   Wagner, Stefan ^a   Dressel, Ralf ^a   Jae, Ho Lee ^a   Nolte, Jessica ^a   Wolf, Frieder ^a   Li, Manyu ^a   Engel, Wolfgang ^a   Hasenfuss, Gerd ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; CELL CULTURE; CYTOLOGY; DISEASES; GENETIC ENGINEERING;

EMBRYONIC GERM LAYERS; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; PLURIPOTENCY; SPERMATOGENESIS;

CELLS;

CELL ORGANELLE; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; GERM CELL; IMMUNITY; NEONATE; SMALL MAMMAL; SPERM;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL ISOLATION; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENETIC SELECTION; GERM LAYER; GERM LINE; GLIA CELL; INBRED STRAIN; MALE; MOUSE; MULTIPOTENT STEM CELL; NONHUMAN; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOGONIUM; STEM CELL; TESTIS CELL; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 33646336640     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature04697     Document Type: Article

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