The elusive spermatogonial stem cell marker?

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 85, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 221-223

  Hermann, Brian P ^a,b,c   Phillips, Bart T ^b,c   Orwig, Kyle E ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL MARKER; ID4 PROTEIN; PLZF PROTEIN; PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CELL CYCLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL DIVISION; CELL EXPANSION; CELL HETEROGENEITY; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOGONIAL STEM CELL; SPERMATOGONIUM; STEM CELL;

ANIMALS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; INHIBITOR OF DIFFERENTIATION PROTEINS; MALE; STEM CELLS;

EID: 80052549320     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.111.093146     Document Type: Note

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