Interspecific germline transmission of cultured primordial germ cells.

In birds, the primordial germ cell (PGC) lineage separates from the soma within 24 h following fertilization. Here we show that the endogenous population of about 200 PGCs from a single chicken embryo can be expanded one million fold in culture. When cultured PGCs are injected into a xenogeneic embr...

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Main Authors: Marie-Cecile van de Lavoir, Ellen J Collarini, Philip A Leighton, Jeffrey Fesler, Daniel R Lu, William D Harriman, T S Thiyagasundaram, Robert J Etches
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/22629301/pdf/?tool=EBI