Germline development from human pluripotent stem cells toward disease modeling of infertility

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 97, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1250-1259

  Hayashi, Yohei ^a   Saitou, Mitinori ^b,c,d,e   Yamanaka, Shinya ^a,d,e  

^a GLADSTONE INSTITUTE OF CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE   (United States)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^d KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINE; CELL MATURATION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL REGENERATION; CELL SPECIFICITY; CELL TRANSDIFFERENTIATION; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE INFERTILITY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GERM LINE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL CULTURE; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE INFERTILITY; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR REPROGRAMMING; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SOMATIC CELL;

ADULT STEM CELLS; ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION;

EID: 84861609798     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: 15565653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2012.04.037     Document Type: Review

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