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an independent team of operatives who work together in a CELLULAR MANUFACTURING production environment.

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The presence of sustentacular cells with high amounts of Follicle stimulating hormone (FSH) and testosterone progressed meiotic division, reduced apoptosis and enhanced survival of germ cells in cultured human testis tissue or cell suspensions (Tesarik et al.

Inductive Role of Sustentacular Cells (Sertoli Cells) Conditioned Medium on Bone Marrow Derived Mesenchymal Stem Cells/Papel Inductivo del Medio Acondicionado de Celulas Sustentaculares (Celulas de Sertoli) en las Celulas Madre Mesenquimales Derivadas de la Medula Osea

Benign Cystic Teratoma is the most common germ cell tumours that tend to be grossly and microscopically distinctive, as they contain skin and skin appendages as well as benign tissues derived from other germ cell layers.

Immunohistochemical profile of ovarian germ cell tumours

elegans in which the action of FOLR-1 is required to promote germ cell tumors that may be similar to the way folate receptors promote the progression of certain cancers in humans.

B Vitamins in Promote Stem Cell Proliferation

Testicular tumors are divided into two categories: germ cell tumors and nongerm cell tumors derived from stroma and sex cord commonly known as sex cord-stromal tumors.

Malignant tumors of testis in Ajmer region

Although mechanisms underlying this tendency toward self-renewal are not completely understood, overexpression of GDNF (19,21) and insignificant decrease in the Kitlg mRNA expression (22) have been observed to follow elimination of germ cells from seminiferous tubules in mice.

Effect of removal of Spermatogonial Stem Cells (SSCs) from in vitro culture on gene expression of niche factors in bovine

Unlike epithelial ovarian cancers, malignant germ cell neoplasms are typically diagnosed at early stages.

Understanding ovarian germ cell neoplasms

In contrast to the slow-growing epithelial ovarian tumors, germ cell malignancies grow rapidly and are characterized by subacute pelvic pain related to capsular distention (2), hemorrhage or necrosis.

Ovarian malignant mixed germ cell tumor: a case of unusual presentation as molar pregnancy

Several studies have reported the successful generation of germ cells from stem cells, but they did not fully evaluate the functionality of the germ cells or provide proof for all key hallmarks of meiosis.

Chinese stem cell technique creates "sperm-like" lab mouse cells

In pearl culture, before insertion of a shell bead and mantle allograft, it is necessary to eliminate the germ cells from the gonad by spawning induction and/or by suppression of gonad development during the prespawning season (Wada 1991).

Distribution and migration of immature germ cells in the pearl oyster Pinctada fucata with the expression pattern of the vasa ortholog by in situ hybridization

Extragonadal germ cell tumours (GCTs) are uncommon and typically arise from the pineal gland, mediastinum, sacrococcyx, or retroperitoneum, and rarely in the vagina, prostate, liver, gastrointestinal tract and orbits.

Do retroperitoneal extragonadal germ cell tumours exist?

Surani and two other groups separated germ cells from the other cells that make up 4- to 19-week-old human embryos.

Most DNA tags cut from germ cells: some epigenetic markers survive, might pass on disease risks

Research over the past decade has shown that germ cells are largely responsible for determining the content of eggs and sperm, but the functions of Sertoli cells are implicated by the editor in the failure so far to create viable sperm from germ cells in the laboratory.