Thy-1+ cells isolated from adult human testicular tissues express human embryonic stem cell genes OCT3/4 and NANOG and may include spermatogonial stem cells

Reproductive Medicine and Biology

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 71-77

  Kobayashi, Hideyuki ^a   Nagao, Koichi ^a   Nakajima, Koichi ^a   Miura, Kazukiyo ^a   Ishii, Nobuhisa ^a  

^a TOHO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Growth factors; Male infertility; Spermatogenesis; Stem cells; Thy 1

Indexed keywords

ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; BASIC FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; GLIAL CELL LINE DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; GLIAL CELL LINE DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR RECEPTOR; GLIAL CELL LINE DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR RECEPTOR ALPHA1; GLYCOSYLPHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL ANCHORED PROTEIN; OCTAMER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 4; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NANOG; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL ISOLATION; CELL POPULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CULTURE MEDIUM; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IN VITRO STUDY; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOGONIUM; TESTIS;

EID: 67649390789     PISSN: 14455781     EISSN: 14470578     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12522-009-0014-0     Document Type: Article

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