The feasibility of using spermatogonial stem cells (SSCs) for cell-based infertility treatment has suffered from a lack of evidence in a preclinical nonhuman primate model.
In this issue, Hermann et al. (2012) demonstrate that autologous and allogeneic transplantation of SSCs in testes of rhesus macaques produced functional sperm.
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Firlej V, Barraud-Lange V, Fouchet P. Are you the author?
Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, Unité 1016, Institut Cochin, Paris, France.
Reference: Cell Stem Cell. 2012 Nov 2;11(5):585-6.
doi: 10.1016/j.stem.2012.10.006
PubMed Abstract
PMID: 23122284
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