Isolation and characterization of pluripotent human spermatogonial stem cell-derived cells

Stem Cells

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 138-149

  Kossack, Nina ^a,b   Meneses, Juanito ^c   Shefi, Shai ^c,d   Ha, Nam Nguyen ^a   Chavez, Shawn ^a   Nicholas, Cory ^a   Gromoll, Joerg ^b   Turek, Paul J ^c   Reijo Pera, Renee A ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Adult stem cells; Germline stem cells; Human embryonic stem cells; Spermatogonia; Testis biopsy

Indexed keywords

OCTAMER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 4; RNA H19; TELOMERASE;

ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL ISOLATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; KARYOTYPE; MALE; MULTIPOTENT STEM CELL; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; PROMOTER REGION; RNA METHYLATION; SHORT TANDEM REPEAT; SPERMATOGONIUM; TERATOMA; TESTIS BIOPSY;

BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BIOPSY; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINE; CELL SEPARATION; CELL SHAPE; DNA METHYLATION; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HUMANS; MALE; MINISATELLITE REPEATS; MULTIPOTENT STEM CELLS; NEURONS; OCTAMER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR-3; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECTRAL KARYOTYPING; SPERMATOGONIA; SULFITES; TELOMERASE; TESTIS;

EID: 59849129677     PISSN: 10665099     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1634/stemcells.2008-0439     Document Type: Article

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