De novo morphogenesis of seminiferous tubules from dissociated immature rat testicular cells in xenografts

Journal of Andrology

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 611-618

  Gassei, Kathrin ^a   Schlatt, Stefan ^a   Ehmcke, Jens ^a  

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

Author keywords

Organogenesis; Sertoli cells; Spermatogonia; Testis; Xenografting

Indexed keywords

LAMININ;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; CELL AGGREGATION; CELL CULTURE; CELL ISOLATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; GEL; HISTOLOGY; IN VITRO STUDY; LEYDIG CELL; MALE; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE; SPERMATOGONIUM; TESTIS CELL; VASCULARIZATION; XENOGRAFT;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; MALE; MICE; MICE, NUDE; MORPHOGENESIS; RATS; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULES; SERTOLI CELLS; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS;

EID: 33746416626     PISSN: 01963635     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2164/jandrol.05207     Document Type: Article

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