Ectopic porcine spermatogenesis in murine subcutis: Tissue grafting versus cell-injection methods

Asian Journal of Andrology

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 317-323

  Watanabe, Takeshi ^a   Hayashi, Hirofumi ^b   Kita, Kaoru ^c   Kubota, Yoshinobu ^c   Ogawa, Takehiko ^c  

^a Kanagawa Pref Ashigarakami Hospital   (Japan)

^b Yokohama Minami Kyosai Hospital   (Japan)

^c YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; SCID MOUSE; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE; SPERMATID; SPERMATOGENESIS; SUBCUTANEOUS TISSUE; TISSUE GRAFT; ANIMAL; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CYTOLOGY; INJECTION; METHODOLOGY; MOUSE MUTANT; NONOBESE DIABETIC MOUSE; NUDE MOUSE; ORGAN SIZE; PHYSIOLOGY; SWINE; TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION; TRANSPLANTATION; XENOGRAFT;

ANIMALS; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; INJECTIONS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED NOD; MICE, NUDE; MICE, SCID; ORGAN SIZE; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULES; SPERMATIDS; SPERMATOGENESIS; SUBCUTANEOUS TISSUE; SWINE; TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS;

EID: 69249220295     PISSN: 1008682X     EISSN: 17457262     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/aja.2008.5     Document Type: Article

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