Reconstruction of mouse testicular cellular microenvironments in long-term seminiferous tubule culture

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Mäkelä, Juho Antti ^a,c   Toppari, Jorma ^a   Rivero Müller, Adolfo ^a   Ventelä, Sami ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^b TURKU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD9 ANTIGEN; CELL PROTEIN; FOLLITROPIN; G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR; G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR 125; GLIAL CELL LINE DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; LIN28 PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; PROMYELOCYTIC LEUKAEMIA ZINC FINGER PROTEIN; STEM CELL FACTOR RECEPTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NANOG; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WT1 PROTEIN; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CULTURE MEDIUM; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL ACTIVITY; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL POPULATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SEPARATION; CELL STIMULATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL TYPE; CELLULAR SECRETION; COCULTURE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PLATING MEDIUM; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PURIFICATION; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE CELL; SERTOLI CELL; SPERMATOGONIAL STEM CELL; SPERMATOGONIUM; STEM CELL; STEM CELL NICHE; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; TUMOR MICROENVIRONMENT; ANIMAL; CELL CULTURE; CULTURE MEDIUM; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECTS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; GERM CELL; MALE; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS; TIME;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CELLS, CULTURED; CELLULAR MICROENVIRONMENT; COCULTURE TECHNIQUES; CULTURE MEDIA, CONDITIONED; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; GENE EXPRESSION; GERM CELLS; MALE; MICE; RNA, MESSENGER; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULES; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOGONIA; TESTIS; TESTOSTERONE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84897503893     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0090088     Document Type: Article

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