Molecular biological features of male germ cell differentiation

Reproductive Medicine and Biology

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 1-9

  Tanaka, Hirometsu ^a   Hirose, Mika ^a   Tokuhiro, Keizo ^a   Tainaka, Hitoshi ^a   Miyagawa, Yasushi ^b   Tsujimura, Akira ^b   Okuyama, Akihiko ^b   Nishimune, Yoshitaka ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Gene; Germ cell; Infertility; Single nucleotide polymorphisms; Spermiogenesis; Testis

Indexed keywords

CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FUNCTION; CELL MATURATION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GERM CELL; HAPLOIDY; HUMAN; MALE INFERTILITY; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; PRESERVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN POLYMORPHISM; PROTEIN PROCESSING; REVIEW; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SOMATIC CELL; SPERMATOGENESIS; Y CHROMOSOME;

EID: 33846961424     PISSN: 14455781     EISSN: 14470578     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1447-0578.2007.00158.x     Document Type: Review

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