Embryonic stem cells as a potential source of gametes

Seminars in Reproductive Medicine

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 322-329

  Ko, Kinarm ^a   Schöler, Hans R ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR BIOMEDICINE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Embryoid body; Embryonic stem cells; Gametogenesis; Pluripotency; Primordial germ cells

Indexed keywords

CELL CULTURE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; CELL MATURATION; CELL NUCLEUS TRANSPLANTATION; CLONING; CULTURE MEDIUM; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; GAMETE; GAMETOGENESIS; HUMAN; INFERTILITY THERAPY; NONHUMAN; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; PRIMORDIAL GERM CELL; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; FEMALE; GERM CELLS; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 33845322280     PISSN: 15268004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2006-952157     Document Type: Review

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