The heterogeneity of spermatogonia is revealed by their topology and expression of marker proteins including the germ cell-specific proteins Nanos2 and Nanos3

Developmental Biology

Volumn 336, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 222-231

  Suzuki, Hitomi ^a   Sada, Aiko ^b   Yoshida, Shosei ^c   Saga, Yumiko ^a,b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b GRADUATE UNIVERSITY FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR BASIC BIOLOGY   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENETICS   (Japan)

Author keywords

Nanos; Spermatogenesis; Spermatogonial stem cell

Indexed keywords

CELL PROTEIN; PROTEIN NANOS2; PROTEIN NANOS3; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL HETEROGENEITY; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOGONIUM; STEM CELL;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CARRIER PROTEINS; DNA PRIMERS; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SPERMATOGONIA; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 70449535650     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: 1095564X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2009.10.002     Document Type: Article

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