Low temperature storage and grafting of human ovarian tissue

Human Reproduction

Volumn 11, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 1487-1491

  Newton, Helen ^a   Aubard, Yves ^b   Rutherford, Anthony ^c   Sharma, Vinay ^d   Gosden, Roger ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIMOGES   (France)

^c LEEDS GENERAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

^d ST JAMES S UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chemotherapy; Cryopreservation; Grafting; Ovary radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

DIMETHYL SULFOXIDE; ETHYLENE GLYCOL; GLYCEROL; PROPYLENE GLYCOL;

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL VIABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOPRESERVATION; FEMALE; GRAFT PATENCY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; OVARY; OVARY FOLLICLE; SCID MOUSE; TISSUE GRAFT; TISSUE PRESERVATION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0029832944     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.humrep.a019423     Document Type: Article

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