Transplantation as a quantitative assay to study Mammalian male germline stem cells

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 1463, Issue , 2017, Pages 155-172

  Helsel, Aileen R ^a   Oatley, Jon M ^a  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Mouse; Spermatogonial stem cell; SSC enrichment; Transplantation

Indexed keywords

BETA GALACTOSIDASE;

ADULT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL POPULATION; CELL SELECTION; CELL SELF-RENEWAL; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DONOR SELECTION; GERMLINE STEM CELL; MALE; MOUSE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOGONIUM; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; ANIMAL; CELL CULTURE; CELL TRACKING; CYTOLOGY; PROCEDURES; STEM CELL; TESTIS;

ANIMALS; CELL TRACKING; CELLS, CULTURED; MALE; MICE; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOGONIA; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; STEM CELLS; TESTIS;

EID: 84991670861     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-4017-2_12     Document Type: Chapter

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