Dynamic changes in EPCAM expression during spermatogonial stem cell differentiation in the mouse testis

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2011, Pages

  Kanatsu Shinohara, Mito ^a   Takashima, Seiji ^a   Ishii, Kei ^a   Shinohara, Takashi ^a,b  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD9 ANTIGEN; EPITHELIAL CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; SHORT HAIRPIN RNA; CD9 PROTEIN, MOUSE; CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; TUMOR ANTIGEN; TUMOR ASSOCIATED ANTIGEN GA733; TUMOR-ASSOCIATED ANTIGEN GA733;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL ACTIVITY; CELL COUNT; CELL CULTURE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL POPULATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SELECTION; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CLONOGENESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE REPRESSION; GERM CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SPERMATOGONIAL STEM CELL; TESTIS CELL; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; CYTOLOGY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH MOUSE; METABOLISM; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA INTERFERENCE; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOGONIUM; STEM CELL; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; TESTIS; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD9; ANTIGENS, NEOPLASM; CELL ADHESION MOLECULES; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELLS, CULTURED; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED ICR; MICE, TRANSGENIC; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA INTERFERENCE; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOGONIA; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; STEM CELLS; TESTIS;

EID: 80051702342     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0023663     Document Type: Article

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