Testicular niche required for human spermatogonial stem cell expansion

Stem Cells Translational Medicine

Volumn 3, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 1043-1054

  Smith, James F ^a   Yango, Pamela ^a   Altman, Eran ^a,b   Choudhry, Shweta ^a   Poelzl, Andrea ^a   Zamah, Alberuni M ^a   Rosen, Mitchell ^a   Klatsky, Peter C ^c   Tran, Nam D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b RABIN MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^c ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer; Cell surface markers; Clinical translation; Mesenchymal stem cells; Spermatogonial stem cells

Indexed keywords

5' NUCLEOTIDASE; ACROSIN; CD34 ANTIGEN; CD45 ANTIGEN; DELETED IN AZOOSPERMIA LIKE; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE 3B; ENDOGLIN; ETS VARIANT 5; G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR 125; GDNF FAMILY RECEPTOR ALPHA 1; HERMES ANTIGEN; LIN28B PROTEIN; MEIOTIC RECOMBINATION PROTEIN DMC1; MELANOMA ANTIGEN FAMILY A 4; PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; PIWI LIKE RNA MEDIATED GENE SILENCING 2; PROTAMINE P2; PROTEIN RET; SAL LIKE PROTEIN 4; STAGE SPECIFIC EMBRYO ANTIGEN 4; SYNAPTONEMAL COMPLEX PROTEIN 3; THY 1 ANTIGEN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA 4; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NANOG; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SLUG; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNINDEXED DRUG; VASA PROTEIN; VIMENTIN; ZINC FINGER AND BTB DOMAIN CONTAINING 16;

ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL GROWTH; CELL ISOLATION; CELL MATURATION; CELL POPULATION; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; FLUORESCENCE ACTIVATED CELL SORTING; GAMMA IRRADIATION; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; MALE; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELL; MULTIPOTENT STEM CELL; NORMAL HUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; QUANTITATIVE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SERTOLI CELL; SOMATIC CELL; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOGONIUM; STEM CELL EXPANSION; STEM CELL NICHE; STROMA CELL; TESTICULAR CELLULAR NICHE; ADULT; ADULT STEM CELL; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUE; CELL SEPARATION; CYTOLOGY; FERTILITY PRESERVATION; FLOW CYTOMETRY; MESENCHYMAL STROMA CELL; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SPERMATOZOON; TESTIS;

ADULT; ADULT STEM CELLS; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL SEPARATION; FERTILITY PRESERVATION; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMANS; MALE; MESENCHYMAL STROMAL CELLS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOA; STEM CELL NICHE; TESTIS;

EID: 84906860020     PISSN: 21576564     EISSN: 21576580     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5966/sctm.2014-0045     Document Type: Article

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