Spermatogonial stem cell niche and spermatogonial stem cell transplantation in zebrafish

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1-16

  Nóbrega, Rafael Henrique ^a,b   Greebe, Caaj Douwe ^a   van de Kant, Henk ^a   Bogerd, Jan ^a   de França, Luiz Renato ^b   Schulz, Rüdiger W ^a,c  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^c INSTITUTE OF MARINE RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FUNCTION; CELL RENEWAL; CELL SELECTION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPLETION; FEMALE; GERM CELL; INTERSTITIUM; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOGONIUM; STEM CELL NICHE; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; TESTIS; ZEBRA FISH; ANIMAL; ANIMAL MODEL; CELL CULTURE; CYTOLOGY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; TRANSPLANTATION;

DANIO RERIO; RODENTIA; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELLS, CULTURED; FEMALE; MALE; MODELS, ANIMAL; SPERMATOGONIA; STEM CELL NICHE; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; TESTIS; ZEBRAFISH;

EID: 77958463325     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0012808     Document Type: Article

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