In vivo and in vitro aging is detrimental to mouse spermatogonial stem cell function

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 84, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 698-706

  Schmidt, Jonathan A ^a   Abramowitz, Lara K ^a   Kubota, Hiroshi ^a,b   Wu, Xin ^a   Niu, Zhiyv ^a   Avarbock, Mary R ^a   Tobias, John W ^a   Bartolomei, Marisa S ^a   Brinster, Ralph L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b KITASATO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Adult stem cells; Aging; Germline; Methylation; Microarray; Spermatogonial stem cell

Indexed keywords

CELL ANTIGEN; PROTEIN BCL 6; THYMUS CELL ANTIGEN 1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR LHX1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL AGING; CELL CULTURE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FUNCTION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA METHYLATION; DNA MICROARRAY; GENE EXPRESSION; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; METHYLATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SPERMATOGONIUM; STEM CELL;

ADULT STEM CELLS; AGING; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL AGING; DNA METHYLATION; DNA PRIMERS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; MALE; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; PREGNANCY; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SPERM INJECTIONS, INTRACYTOPLASMIC; SPERMATOGONIA;

EID: 79953269041     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.110.088229     Document Type: Article

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