In Vitro-Differentiated Embryonic Stem Cells Give Rise to Male Gametes that Can Generate Offspring Mice

Developmental Cell

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 125-132

  Nayernia, Karim ^a   Nolte, Jessica ^a   Michelmann, Hans W ^a   Lee, Jae Ho ^a   Rathsack, Kristina ^a   Drusenheimer, Nadja ^a   Dev, Arvind ^a   Wulf, Gerald ^a   Ehrmann, Ingrid E ^b   Elliott, David J ^b   Okpanyi, Vera ^c   Zechner, Ulrich ^c   Haaf, Thomas ^c   Meinhardt, Andreas ^d   Engel, Wolfgang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

DEVBIO; STEMCELL

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FUNCTION; CELL LINE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO TRANSFER; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GAMETOGENESIS; HAPLOIDY; IN VITRO STUDY; INFERTILITY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MALE; MAMMAL; MEIOSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; OVIDUCT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINE; DNA, RECOMBINANT; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MALE; MEIOSIS; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; PREGNANCY; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SPERM INJECTIONS, INTRACYTOPLASMIC; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOGONIA; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; STEM CELLS;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 33745499559     PISSN: 15345807     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.devcel.2006.05.010     Document Type: Article

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