Status of human germ cell differentiation from pluripotent stem cells

Reproduction, Fertility and Development

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 396-404

  Pera, Renee A Reijo ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

meiosis; primordial germ cell.

Indexed keywords

BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; AZOOSPERMIA; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MATURATION; CHROMOSOME NUMBER; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; FERTILITY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GAMETOGENESIS; GENOTYPE; GERM CELL; GERM LAYER; GERMPLASM; HUMAN; INFERTILITY; INNER CELL MASS; KARYOTYPE 46,XY; MEIOSIS; MEIOTIC PROPHASE I; OLIGOSPERMIA; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; OOCYTE MATURATION; OVARY FOLLICLE DEVELOPMENT; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; PRIMORDIAL GERM CELL; SKIN FIBROBLAST; SOMATIC CELL; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON; STEM CELL; Y CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CYTOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; GERM CELLS; HUMANS; INDUCED PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS; INFERTILITY; MICE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OCTAMER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR-3; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION;

EID: 84873835696     PISSN: 10313613     EISSN: 14485990     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/RD12047     Document Type: Article

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