Immune physiology and oogenesis in fetal and adult humans, ovarian infertility, and totipotency of adult ovarian stem cells

Birth Defects Research Part C - Embryo Today: Reviews

Volumn 87, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 64-89

  Bukovsky, Antonin ^a,e   Caudle, Michael R ^a   Virant Klun, Irma ^b   Gupta, Satish K ^c   Dominguez, Roberto ^d   Svetlikova, Marta ^a   Xu, Fei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTRE LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF IMMUNOLOGY   (India)

^d UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^e Department of Obstetrics and Gyne cology   (United States)

Author keywords

Animal models; Epithelial neural transdifferentiation; Immune adaptation; Neo oogenesis; Ovarian follicular renewal; Ovarian stem cells; Premature ovarian failure; Prime reproductive period theory; Regenerative medicine; Sex steroids; Systemic regenerative therapy; Tissue culture; Totipotent stem cells

Indexed keywords

SEX HORMONE;

ALLOGENEIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; AUTOLOGOUS STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; BONE MARROW CELL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL NUCLEUS TRANSPLANTATION; CELL RENEWAL; CELL TYPE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE INFERTILITY; HORMONAL REGULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MEIOSIS; NERVE CELL; NEURAL STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; OVARY CELL CULTURE; OVARY FOLLICLE; OVARY FOLLICLE CELL; PARTHENOGENESIS; POSTMENOPAUSE; PRIMORDIAL GERM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; SOMATIC CELL; SYNAPTONEMAL COMPLEX; TOTIPOTENT STEM CELL;

ANIMALIA; INVERTEBRATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 63849107737     PISSN: 1542975X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bdrc.20146     Document Type: Review

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