From in vitro culture to in vivo models to study testis development and spermatogenesis

Cell and Tissue Research

Volumn 349, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 691-702

  Dores, Camila ^a   Alpaugh, Whitney ^a   Dobrinski, Ina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Ectopic grafting; Spermatogenesis; Spermatogonial stem cell; Testis morphogenesis

Indexed keywords

BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN; CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR CXCR4; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 2; GLIAL CELL LINE DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; STEM CELL FACTOR; STROMAL CELL DERIVED FACTOR 1; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; UVOMORULIN;

BIOASSAY; BLOOD TESTIS BARRIER; CELL CULTURE; CELL LINEAGE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; EPIGENETICS; GAMETE; GERM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; ORGANOGENESIS; PRIMORDIAL GERM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW; SERTOLI CELL; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPERMATID; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOGONIUM; TESTIS DEVELOPMENT; TESTIS FUNCTION; XENOGRAFT;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; MALE; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOGONIA; TESTIS;

EID: 84866387914     PISSN: 0302766X     EISSN: 14320878     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00441-012-1457-x     Document Type: Review

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