In vitro culture of testicular germ cells: Regulatory factors and limitations

Growth Factors

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 236-252

  Huleihel, Mahmoud ^a   Abuelhija, Mahmoud ^a   Lunenfeld, Eitan ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Cytokines; Germ cells; Growth factors; Hormones; In vitro culture; Paracrine autocrine factors

Indexed keywords

GLIAL CELL LINE DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; GRANULOCYTE MACROPHAGE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; GROWTH FACTOR; LEUKEMIA INHIBITORY FACTOR; RECOMBINANT FOLLITROPIN; STEM CELL FACTOR;

APOPTOSIS; AUTOCRINE EFFECT; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL INTERACTION; CELL ISOLATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; GERM CELL; HORMONAL REGULATION; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; LEYDIG CELL; MACROPHAGE; MALE INFERTILITY; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; PARACRINE SIGNALING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE; SERTOLI CELL; SHORT SURVEY; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOGONIUM; TESTIS CELL;

ANIMALS; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; HORMONES; HUMANS; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MALE; MEIOSIS; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOGONIA; STEM CELLS; TESTIS;

EID: 37549028380     PISSN: 08977194     EISSN: 10292292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08977190701783400     Document Type: Short Survey

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