Artificial gametes: A systematic review of biological progress towards clinical application

Human Reproduction Update

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 285-296

  Hendriks, Saskia ^a   Dancet, Eline A F ^a,b   Van Pelt, Ans M M ^a   Hamer, Geert ^a   Repping, Sjoerd ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Artificial gametes; Assisted reproductive technologies; Gametogenesis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL GAMETE; BIOLOGY; BIRTH; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL THERAPY; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; FERTILIZATION; GAMETE; GERMLINE STEM CELL; HAPLOIDY; HUMAN; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; NONHUMAN; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATIC CELL; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; ANIMAL; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL NUCLEUS TRANSPLANTATION; CYTOLOGY; DONOR; FEMALE; GENETIC ENGINEERING; INFERTILITY; INFERTILITY THERAPY; MALE; METABOLISM; OOCYTE; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SPERMATOZOON;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL NUCLEUS; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; HUMANS; INFERTILITY; MALE; NUCLEAR TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; OOCYTES; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS; REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES, ASSISTED; SPERMATOZOA; TISSUE DONORS;

EID: 84929759680     PISSN: 13554786     EISSN: 14602369     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humupd/dmv001     Document Type: Article

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