Optimized flow cytometry isolation of murine spermatocytes

Cytometry Part A

Volumn 85, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 556-565

  Gaysinskaya, Valeriya ^a,b   Soh, Ina Y ^a,b   van der Heijden, Godfried W ^a   Bortvin, Alex ^a  

^a GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adult mouse testis; Cell sorting; Flow cytometry; Hoechst 33342; Meiotic prophase I

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; CELL CYCLE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENETICS; MALE; MEIOTIC PROPHASE I; MOUSE; PROCEDURES; SPERMATOCYTE; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; CELL CYCLE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; MALE; MEIOTIC PROPHASE I; MICE; SPERMATOCYTES; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS;

EID: 84901413275     PISSN: 15524922     EISSN: 15524930     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cyto.a.22463     Document Type: Article

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