The Controversy, Challenges, and Potential Benefits of Putative Female Germline Stem Cells Research in Mammals

• Main Authors: Zezheng Pan (Author), Mengli Sun (Author), Xia Liang (Author), Jia Li (Author), Fangyue Zhou (Author), Zhisheng Zhong (Author), Yuehui Zheng (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Hindawi Limited, 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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The conventional view is that female mammals lose their ability to generate new germ cells after birth. However, in recent years, researchers have successfully isolated and cultured a type of germ cell from postnatal ovaries in a variety of mammalian species that have the abilities of self-prolifera...