CoGrafting of hamster (Phodopus sungorus) and marmoset (Callithrix jacchus) testicular tissues into nude mice does not overcome blockade of early spermatogenic differentiation in primate grafts

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 71, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 2087-2091

  Wistuba, Joachim ^a   Mundry, Marvin ^a   Luetjens, C Marc ^a   Schlatt, Stefan ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Androgens; CG; Follicle stimulating hormone; Grafting; Morphometry; Spermatogenesis; Testis; Testis development; Testosterone

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXON; GENE DELETION; GERM CELL; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HAMSTER; MALE; MARMOSET; MEIOSIS; MORPHOMETRICS; MOUSE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; NUDE MOUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOGONIUM; TESTIS; TESTIS DEVELOPMENT; TISSUE GRAFT; XENOTRANSPLANTATION;

ANDROGENS; ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; CALLITHRIX; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; CRICETINAE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; MALE; MICE; MICE, NUDE; PHODOPUS; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS;

ANIMALIA; CALLITHRIX JACCHUS; CAPRA HIRCUS; CRICETINAE; MACACA; MAMMALIA; MARMOSETS; MUS MUSCULUS; PHODOPUS SUNGORUS; PRIMATES;

EID: 9744238029     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.104.033431     Document Type: Article

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