Parthenogenetic embryo-like structures in the human ovarian surface epithelium cell culture in postmenopausal women with no naturally present follicles and oocytes

Stem Cells and Development

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 137-150

  Virant Klun, Irma ^a   Rožman, Primož ^b   Cvjeticanin, Branko ^a   Vrtacnik Bokal, Eda ^a   Novakovic, Srdjan ^c   Rülicke, Thomas ^d   Dovc, Peter ^e   Meden Vrtovec, Helena ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTRE LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^b BLOOD TRANSFUSION CENTRE OF SLOVENIA   (Slovenia)

^c INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Slovenia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEMBRANE ANTIGEN; NANOHORN; OCTAMER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 4; STAGE SPECIFIC EMBRYO ANTIGEN 4; STEM CELL FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX2; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; TELOMERASE;

ADULT; AGED; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL CULTURE; CELL ISOLATION; CELL SURFACE; CHROMOSOME 13; CHROMOSOME 16; CHROMOSOME 18; CHROMOSOME 21; CHROMOSOME 22; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENSITY GRADIENT CENTRIFUGATION; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; EPITHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; GERMINAL VESICLE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IN VITRO STUDY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; OOCYTE; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; OVARY; OVARY FOLLICLE; PARTHENOGENESIS; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; POSTMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEVERE COMBINED IMMUNODEFICIENCY; TERATOMA; X CHROMOSOME; Y CHROMOSOME; ZONA PELLUCIDA; ANIMAL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; CYTOLOGY; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SCID MOUSE;

ADULT; AGED; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CELLS, CULTURED; EPITHELIAL CELLS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, SCID; MIDDLE AGED; OOCYTES; OVARIAN FOLLICLE; OVARY; PARTHENOGENESIS; POSTMENOPAUSE; TELOMERASE; TERATOMA;

MUS;

EID: 60149083378     PISSN: 15473287     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/scd.2007.0238     Document Type: Article

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