Xenografting of testicular tissue from an infant human donor results in accelerated testicular maturation

Human Reproduction

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1113-1122

  Sato, Y ^a,b   Nozawa, S ^a   Yoshiike, M ^a   Arai, M ^a,c   Sasaki, C ^a   Iwamoto, T ^a,d  

^a ST MARIANNA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c OKINAWA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY GRADUATE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d International University of Health and Welfare Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Fertility; Human; Spermatogenesis; Testis; Xenograft

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CANCER SURGERY; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MATURATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; FERTILITY; GERM CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFANT; LEYDIG CELL; MALE; MEIOSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PACHYTENE; SERTOLI CELL; SPERMATOCYTE; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOGONIUM; STEM CELL; TESTIS; TESTIS CANCER; TESTIS DEVELOPMENT; TISSUE GRAFT; XENOGRAFT;

ANIMALIA; MUS; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 77951113451     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: 14602350     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/deq001     Document Type: Article

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