Transplantation of cryopreserved mouse, Chinese hamster, rabbit, Japanese monkey and rat ovaries into rat recipients

Experimental Animals

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 17-21

  Kagabu, Satosi ^a   Umezu, Motoaki ^b  

^a YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ovary cryopreservation; Ovary transplantation; Rat uterine cavity; Vitrification

Indexed keywords

CRICETINAE; CRICETULUS GRISEUS; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CRICETULUS; CRYOPRESERVATION; FEMALE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HAMSTER; HAPLORHINI; INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH MOUSE; MOUSE; OVARY; PSEUDOPREGNANCY; RABBIT; RAT; TRANSPLANTATION; WISTAR RAT; XENOGRAFT;

ANIMALS; CRICETINAE; CRICETULUS; CRYOPRESERVATION; FEMALE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HAPLORHINI; MICE; MICE, INBRED ICR; OVARY; PSEUDOPREGNANCY; RABBITS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS;

EID: 0033643960     PISSN: 13411357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1538/expanim.49.17     Document Type: Article

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