Germline stem cells: Toward the regeneration of spermatogenesis

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 101, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 3-13

  Valli, Hanna ^a,b   Phillips, Bart T ^a,b   Shetty, Gunapala ^c   Byrne, James A ^d,e   Clark, Amander T ^e   Meistrich, Marvin L ^c   Orwig, Kyle E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Male fertility; male infertility; regenerative medicine; spermatogonial stem cells; stem cells

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL REGENERATION; CELL SELECTION; CRYOPRESERVATION; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FERTILITY PRESERVATION; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GERMLINE STEM CELL; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MALE FERTILITY; MALE INFERTILITY; NONHUMAN; ORGAN CULTURE; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOGONIUM; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; TESTIS;

EID: 84891554959     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: 15565653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2013.10.052     Document Type: Review

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