In vitro murine spermatogenesis in an organ culture system

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 83, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 261-267

  Gohbara, Ayako ^a   Katagiri, Kumiko ^a   Sato, Takuya ^a   Kubota, Yoshinobu ^a   Kagechika, Hiroyuki ^b   Araki, Yasuyuki ^c   Araki, Yasuhisa ^c   Ogawa, Takehiko ^a,d  

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

^b TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Inst for Adv Reprod Med Technol   (Japan)

^d YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Haploid; In vitro; Meiosis; Organ culture; Spermatid; Spermatogenesis; Testis

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CHROMOSOME NUMBER; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; GERM CELL; MALE; MEIOSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ORGAN CULTURE; PACHYTENE; PREMATURE CHROMOSOME CONDENSATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ASSAY; SPERMATOGENESIS; TEMPERATURE; TESTIS; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; CHEMISTRY; CULTURE MEDIUM; CYTOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH MOUSE; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUE; PHYSIOLOGY; SPERMATOZOON; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ACROSIN; CULTURE MEDIUM; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; GSG2 PROTEIN, MOUSE; PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE; SIGNAL PEPTIDE;

ACROSIN; ANIMALS; CULTURE MEDIA; GENE EXPRESSION; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MALE; MEIOSIS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED ICR; MICE, TRANSGENIC; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUES; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOA; TEMPERATURE; TESTIS;

EID: 77955359537     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.110.083899     Document Type: Article

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