Two-step oligoclonal development of male germ cells

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 175-180

  Ueno, Hiroo ^a   Turnbull, Brit B ^b   Weissman, Irving L ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Apoptosis chimeras; Premordial germ cells; Stem cells; Testis

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL POPULATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHIMERA; EMBRYO; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; FETUS; GERM LINE; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIMORDIAL GERM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; SOMATIC CELL; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS;

ANIMALS; CELL LINEAGE; CLONE CELLS; GERM CELLS; MALE; MICE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SPERMATOGENESIS;

MUS;

EID: 58549109913     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0810325105     Document Type: Article

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