Transcriptional and translational heterogeneity among neonatal mouse spermatogonia

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 92, Issue 2, 2015, Pages

  Hermann, Brian P ^a   Mutoji, Kazadi N ^a   Velte, Ellen K ^b   Ko, Daijin ^a   Oatley, Jon M ^d   Geyer, Christopher B ^b,c   McCarrey, John R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^b EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

First wave spermatogenesis; Germline development; Prospermatogonia; Single cell gene expression; Spermatogonial stem cells

Indexed keywords

ENHANCED GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL SELECTION; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL GENE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GERM CELL; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; INHIBITOR OF DNA BINDING 4 GENE; MALE; MOUSE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SINGLE CELL ANALYSIS; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOGONIUM; STEM CELL; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSGENE; TRANSLATION REGULATION; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; TESTIS;

MAMMALIA;

ANIMALS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MALE; MICE; RNA, MESSENGER; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOGONIA; TESTIS;

EID: 84929582938     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.114.125757     Document Type: Article

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