Spermatogonial stem cell biomarkers: Improved outcomes of spermatogonial transplantation in male fertility restoration?

Expert Review of Molecular Diagnostics

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 109-114

  Yeh, Jonathan R ^a   Nagano, Makoto C ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b ROYAL VICTORIA HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CELL SURFACE MARKER; DIFFERENTIATION ANTIGEN;

CELL FUNCTION; CRYOPRESERVATION; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; INFERTILITY THERAPY; MALE FERTILITY; MALE INFERTILITY; NONHUMAN; SPERM PRESERVATION; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOGONIUM; STEM CELL; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; ART; MALE; METABOLISM; TRANSPLANTATION;

ANTIGENS, DIFFERENTIATION; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; PORTRAITS AS TOPIC; SPERMATOGONIA; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; STEM CELLS;

EID: 66549127518     PISSN: 14737159     EISSN: 17448352     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/14737159.9.2.109     Document Type: Editorial

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