Stem cells in adult human ovaries: From female fertility to ovarian cancer

Current Pharmaceutical Design

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 283-292

  Virant Klun, Irma ^a   Stimpfel, Martin ^a   Skutella, Thomas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTRE LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Embryo; Human; In vitro oogenesis; Ovary; Stem cells

Indexed keywords

ALPHA6 INTEGRIN; BETA1 INTEGRIN; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN 4; CD9 ANTIGEN; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE 3B; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 4; GROWTH DIFFERENTIATION FACTOR 3; KERATINOCYTE GROWTH FACTOR; MICRORNA; OCTAMER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 4; SCATTER FACTOR; STAGE SPECIFIC EMBRYO ANTIGEN 4; STAT3 PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NANOG; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX2;

CELL INTERACTION; CELL THERAPY; EMBRYONAL CARCINOMA STEM CELL; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; FEMALE FERTILITY; FIBROBLAST; GERM LAYER; GERMLINE STEM CELL; GRANULOSA CELL; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELL; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; OVARY; OVARY CANCER; OVARY FOLLICLE DEVELOPMENT; PLASTICITY; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; PRIMORDIAL GERM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW; STEM CELL; THECA CELL;

ADULT; ANIMALS; FEMALE; FERTILITY; HUMANS; MICE; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; OVARY; REPRODUCTIVE MEDICINE; STEM CELLS;

EID: 84856418104     PISSN: 13816128     EISSN: 18734286     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/138161212799040394     Document Type: Review

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