Donor-host involvement in immature rat testis xenografting into nude mouse hosts

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 82, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 888-895

  Schlatt, Stefan ^a,b   Westernströer, Birgit ^b   Gassei, Kathrin ^b,c   Ehmcke, Jens ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Angiogenesis; Green fluorescent protein; Testis; Xenografting

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CAPILLARY PROLIFERATION; CELL MIGRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GRAFT SURVIVAL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUDE MOUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS; XENOGRAFT;

ANIMALS; CELL MOVEMENT; GRAFT SURVIVAL; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; MALE; MICE; MICE, NUDE; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PHYSIOLOGIC; RATS; RATS, TRANSGENIC; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS;

MAMMALIA; MUS MUSCULUS; RATTUS;

EID: 77953832892     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.109.082073     Document Type: Article

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