Long-term in vitro culture and preliminary establishment of chicken primordial germ cell lines.

Primordial germ cells (PGCs) are precursors of functional gametes and can be used as efficient transgenic tools and carriers in bioreactors. Few methods for long-term culture of PGCs are available. In this study, we tested various culture conditions for PGCs, and used the optimum culture system to c...

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Main Authors: Linglin Kong, Lingling Qiu, Qixin Guo, Ying Chen, Xin Zhang, Bowen Chen, Yang Zhang, Guobin Chang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5927411?pdf=render