Use of pluripotent stem cells for reproductive medicine: Are we there yet?

Veterinary Quarterly

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 42-51

  Duggal, Galbha ^a   Heindryckx, Björn ^a   Deroo, Tom ^a   De Sutter, Petra ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

artificial gametes; embryonic stem cells; germ line stem cells; infertility; pluripotent stem cells; reproduction

Indexed keywords

BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN 4; CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR CXCR4; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; GROWTH DIFFERENTIATION FACTOR 9; KRUPPEL LIKE FACTOR 4; LEUKEMIA INHIBITORY FACTOR; OCTAMER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 4; OSTEOGENIC PROTEIN 1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX2; WNT3A PROTEIN;

ALLOTRANSPLANTATION; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS TRANSPLANTATION; DISEASE RESISTANCE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GENE DELETION; GERM LINE; HUMAN; INFERTILITY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MALE INFERTILITY; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; SPERM; SPERMATOGENESIS; TISSUE REPAIR; ANIMAL; ANIMAL MODEL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; CYTOLOGY; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; FEMALE; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION; TRENDS;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; FEMALE; MALE; MODELS, ANIMAL; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS; REPRODUCTIVE MEDICINE;

EID: 84900807452     PISSN: 01652176     EISSN: 18755941     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01652176.2014.891061     Document Type: Article

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