Development of quantitative microscopy-based assays for evaluating dynamics of living cultures of mouse spermatogonial stem/progenitor cells

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 87, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Heim, Crystal N ^a   Fanslow, Danielle A ^a   Tenenhaus Dann, Christina ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cell death; Differentiation; Germ cell; Green fluorescent protein; Lentivirus; Live imaging; Spermatogenesis; Spermatogonial stem cell; Undifferentiated spermatogonia

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; HISTONE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL DEATH; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MIGRATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; MICROSCOPY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SPERMATOGONIUM; STEM CELL; TRANSPLANTATION;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL ASSAY; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CELL DEATH; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CELLS, CULTURED; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED DBA; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; SPERMATOGONIA; STEM CELLS; TRANSFECTION;

LENTIVIRUS;

EID: 84869390514     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.112.101717     Document Type: Article

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