Germline stem cells /

Includes bibliographical references and index.

pt. I. Identification and regulation of germline stem cells in model organisms -- The development of germline stem cells in Drosophila / David A. Dansereau and Paul Lasko -- Analysis of the C. elegans germline stem cell region / Sarah L. Crittenden and Judith Kimble -- Immunohistological techniques for studying the Drosophila male germline stem cell / Shree Ram Singh and Steven X. Hou -- Genetic tools used for cell lineage tracing and gene manipulation in Drosophila germline stem cells / Wei Liu and Steven X. Hou -- Structural polarity and dynamics of male germline stem cells in an insect (milkweed bug Oncopeltus fasciatus) / David C. Dorn and August Dorn -- High-resolution light microscopic characterization of spermatogonia / Hélio Chiarini-Garcia and Marvin L. Meistrich -- Identification and characterization of spermatogonial subtypes and their expansion in whole mounts and tissue sections from primate testes / Jens Ehmcke and Stefan Schlatt -- Epigenetic control in male germ cells : a transillumination-assisted microdissection method for the analysis of developmentally regulated events / Durga Prasad Mishra and Paolo Sassone-Corsi -- GDNF maintains mouse spermatogonial stem cells in vivo and in vitro / Hannu Sariola and Tiina Immonen -- g pt. II. In vitro culture and application of germline stem cells -- Ectopic grafting of mammalian testis tissue into mouse hosts / Ina Dobrinski and Rahul Rathi -- Spermatogonial stem cell transplantation, testicular function, and restoration of male fertility in mice / Derek J. McLean -- Isolating highly pure rat spermatogonial stem cells in culture / F. Kent Hamra ... [et al.] -- Deriving mouse spermatogonial stem cell lines / Ilaria Falciatori ... [et al.] -- Production of knockdown rats by lentiviral transduction of embryos with short hairpin RNA transgenes / Christina Tenenhaus Dann and David L. Garbers -- Testicular germ cell tumors in mice : new ways to study a genetically complex trait / Jason D. Heaney and Joseph H. Nadeau -- Study origin of germ cells and formation of new primary follicles in adult human and rat ovaries / Antonin Bukovsky ... [et al.].