Human primordial germ cells migrate along nerve fibers and Schwann cells from the dorsal hind gut mesentery to the gonadal ridge

Molecular Human Reproduction

Volumn 16, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 621-631

  Mollgard K ^a   Jespersen, A ^b   Lutterodt, M C ^c   Yding Andersen, C ^c   Hoyer P E ^a   Byskov, A G ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Human germ stem cells; Immunohistochemistry and electron microscopy; Migration; Nerve fibers; PGCs

Indexed keywords

BETA TUBULIN; BETA TUBULIN III; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; MELANOMA ANTIGEN 4; NEURON SPECIFIC ENOLASE; OCTAMER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 4; STEM CELL FACTOR RECEPTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVE; CELL MIGRATION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; DORSAL MESENTERY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYONIC STRUCTURES; FEMALE; FETUS; GONAD DEVELOPMENT; GONADAL RIDGE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MESENTERY; NERVE FIBER; NERVE PLEXUS; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEUROFILAMENT; PRIMORDIAL GERM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SCHWANN CELL;

AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CELL MOVEMENT; FEMALE; GERM CELLS; GESTATIONAL AGE; GONADS; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MESENTERY; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; NERVE FIBERS; OVARY; SCHWANN CELLS;

EID: 77956293169     PISSN: 13609947     EISSN: 14602407     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molehr/gaq052     Document Type: Article

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