Isolation and characterization of primordial follicles from fresh and cryopreserved human ovarian tissue

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 67, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 481-486

  Oktay, Kutluk ^a,b   Nugent, David ^a   Newton, Helen ^a   Salha, Osama ^a,c   Chatterjee, Prasad ^a   Gosden, Roger G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b SUNY DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c St James University Hospital   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cryopreservation; electron microscopy; human; isolation; ovary; primordial follicle; viability stain

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CELL ISOLATION; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CELL VIABILITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CRYOPRESERVATION; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; OVARY FOLLICLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0031034319     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0015-0282(97)80073-8     Document Type: Article

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