Functional analysis of male mouse haploid germ cells of various differentiation stages: Early and late round spermatids are functionally equivalent in producing progeny

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 80, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 511-517

  Ohta, Hiroshi ^a   Sakaide, Yuko ^a   Wakayama, Teruhiko ^a  

^a RIKEN KOBE INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Developmental biology; Embryo; ICSI; ROSI; Round spermatid; Spermatid; Spermatogenesis; Spermiogenesis; Testis

Indexed keywords

ACROSIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; OCTAMER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 4; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR CDX2;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION; BIRTH RATE; BLASTOCYST; BODY WEIGHT; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL TYPE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; DNA METHYLATION; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GERM CELL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; PLACENTA WEIGHT; PREIMPLANTATION EMBRYO; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRONUCLEUS; SEX RATIO; SPERMATID; SPERMATOGENESIS; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; ZYGOTE;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BLASTOCYST; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELLS, CULTURED; DNA METHYLATION; FEMALE; FERTILITY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GERM CELLS; HAPLOIDY; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED ICR; MICE, TRANSGENIC; OCTAMER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR-3; OOCYTES; SPERMATIDS; SPERMATOGENESIS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 62149128541     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.108.073270     Document Type: Article

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