Establishment of a short-term in vitro assay for mouse spermatogonial stem cells

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 77, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 897-904

  Yeh, Jonathan R ^a   Zhang, Xiangfan ^a   Nagano, Makoto C ^a,b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b ROYAL VICTORIA HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Growth factors; Spermatogenesis; Stem cells; Testis

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL ASSAY; CELL COUNT; CELL CULTURE; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; IN VITRO STUDY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPERM; SPERMATOGENESIS; STEM CELL; TESTIS;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL ASSAY; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; SPERMATOGONIA; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; STEM CELLS;

EID: 35548984830     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.107.063057     Document Type: Article

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