Isolation and cultivation of stem cells from adult mouse testes

Nature Protocols

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 143-154

  Guan, Kaomei ^a   Wolf, Frieder ^a   Becker, Alexander ^a   Engel, Wolfgang ^a   Nayernia, Karim ^a,b   Hasenfuss, Gerd ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENHANCED GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; LAMININ;

ADULT ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL ISOLATION; CELL SELECTION; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; FLUORESCENCE ACTIVATED CELL SORTING; GENETIC SELECTION; GERM LINE; MULTIPOTENT STEM CELL; NONHUMAN; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPERMATOGONIUM; STEM CELL; TESTIS CELL; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; MALE; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; SPERMATOGONIA; STEM CELLS; TESTIS;

MUS; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 59849125666     PISSN: 17542189     EISSN: 17502799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2008.242     Document Type: Article

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