Transplanted XY germ cells produce spermatozoa in testes of XXY mice

International Journal of Andrology

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 581-587

  Lue, Y ^a,b   Liu, P Y ^a,c   Erkkila, K ^a   Ma, K ^a   Schwarcz, M ^a   Wang, C ^a   Swerdloff, R S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

germ cell transplantation; Klinefelter's syndrome; testis

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; FEMALE; GERM CELL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KARYOTYPE 46,XY; KARYOTYPE 47,XXY; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE; SPERMATID; SPERMATOCYTE; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOGONIUM; SPERMATOZOON; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; GENETICS; KLINEFELTER SYNDROME; TESTIS; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; TRANSPLANTATION;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; GERM CELLS; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; KLINEFELTER SYNDROME; MALE; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; SPERMATOZOA; TESTIS;

EID: 77953953977     PISSN: 01056263     EISSN: 13652605     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2605.2009.00979.x     Document Type: Article

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