Gonocytes, from the fifties to the present: Is there a reason to change the name?

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 89, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Culty, Martine ^a  

^a RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF THE MCGILL UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Gonocytes; Mitosis; Prespermatogonia; Prospermatogonia; Quiescence; Testis

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED LEUKOCYTE CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; CONNEXIN 43; FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; NERVE CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FKHR;

BASEMENT MEMBRANE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; DNA METHYLATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GONOCYTE; HUMAN; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SERTOLI CELL; SHORT SURVEY; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOGONIUM; CELL LINEAGE; CYTOLOGY; GERM CELL; GONOCYTES; MALE; MITOSIS; NOMENCLATURE; PRESPERMATOGONIA; PROSPERMATOGONIA; QUIESCENCE; REVIEW; TESTIS;

GONOCYTES; MITOSIS; PRESPERMATOGONIA; PROSPERMATOGONIA; QUIESCENCE; TESTIS;

CELL LINEAGE; GERM CELLS; HUMANS; MALE; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOGONIA; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC; TESTIS;

EID: 84886899762     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.113.110544     Document Type: Short Survey

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