Isolation, characterization and propagation of mitotically active germ cells from adult mouse and human ovaries

Nature Protocols

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 966-988

  Woods, Dori C ^a   Tilly, Jonathan L ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

B LYMPHOCYTE INDUCED MATURATION PROTEIN 1; CELL PROTEIN; DDX4 PROTEIN; DPPA3 PROTEIN; IFITM3 PROTEIN; TELOMERASE REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL ASSAY; CELL COUNT; CELL CULTURE; CELL FUNCTION; CELL ISOLATION; CELL SPECIFICITY; CELL TYPE; CELL VIABILITY; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE ACTIVATED CELL SORTING; GENE EXPRESSION; GERM CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MITOSIS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; OVARY CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PURIFICATION; STEM CELL EXPANSION;

ANIMALS; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMANS; MICE; MITOSIS; OOCYTES; OOGONIA; OVARY; STEM CELLS; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 84877082179     PISSN: 17542189     EISSN: 17502799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2013.047     Document Type: Article

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