PAX7 expression defines germline stem cells in the adult testis

Journal of Clinical Investigation

Volumn 124, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 3929-3944

  Aloisio, Gina M ^a   Nakada, Yuji ^a   Saatcioglu, Hatice D ^a   Peña, Christopher G ^a   Baker, Michael D ^a   Tarnawa, Edward D ^a   Mukherjee, Jishnu ^a   Manjunath, Hema ^a   Bugde, Abhijit ^b   Sengupta, Anita L ^a   Amatruda, James F ^a   Cuevas, Ileana ^a   Hamra, F Kent ^a   Castrillon, Diego H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL MARKER; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PAX7; PAX7 PROTEIN, MOUSE;

ADULT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIRTH; CELL CLONE; CELL COUNT; CELL DAMAGE; CELL LINEAGE; CELL SUBPOPULATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; GERMLINE STEM CELL; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; MALE STERILITY; MOUSE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOGONIUM; SPERMATOZOON; STEM CELL EXPANSION; TESTIS; TESTIS INJURY; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; INFERTILITY, MALE; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; STEM CELL;

ANIMALS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; MICE; PAX7 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOGONIA; STEM CELLS; TESTIS;

EID: 84907009214     PISSN: 00219738     EISSN: 15588238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1172/JCI75943     Document Type: Article

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