Effects of various cryopreservation media and freezing-thawing on the morphology of rat testicular biopsies

Andrologia

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 368-378

  Jezek, D ^a,c   Schulze, W ^b   Kalanj Bognar, S ^a   Vukeli, Z ^a   Milavec Pureti, V ^a   Krhen, I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^c NONE   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Biopsy; Cryopreservation; Morphology; Rat; Testis

Indexed keywords

CRYOPROTECTIVE AGENT; DIMETHYL SULFOXIDE; GLYCEROL;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL SWELLING; CELL VACUOLE; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOPRESERVATION; LAMINA PROPRIA; MALE; NONHUMAN; RAT; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE EPITHELIUM; SERTOLI CELL; SPERM PRESERVATION; SPERMATID; SPERMATOCYTE; SPERMATOGONIUM; TESTIS BIOPSY; THAWING;

EID: 0035170697     PISSN: 03034569     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1439-0272.2001.00459.x     Document Type: Article

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