Birth of offspring following transplantation of cyropreserved immature testicular pieces and in-vitro microinsemination

Human Reproduction

Volumn 17, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 3039-3045

  Shinohara, T ^a   Inoue, K ^b   Ogonuki, N ^b   Kanatsu Shinohara, M ^a   Miki, H ^c   Nakata, K ^c   Kurome, M ^c   Nagashima, H ^c   Toyokuni, S ^a   Kogishi, K ^a   Honjo, T ^a   Ogura, A ^b  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b RIKEN   (Japan)

^c MEIJI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cancer; In vitro microinsemination; Infertility; Testis; Transplantation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIRTH; CANCER PATIENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOPRESERVATION; HISTOLOGY; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; IN VITRO MICROINSEMINATION; INFERTILITY THERAPY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; MALE INFERTILITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PREPUBERTY; RABBIT; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON MATURATION; TESTIS; TESTIS TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION; THAWING; XENOTRANSPLANTATION; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEAT; INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH MOUSE; NUDE MOUSE; PREGNANCY; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; TRANSPLANTATION; XENOGRAFT;

ANIMALIA; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS;

ANIMALS; CRYOPRESERVATION; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HEAT; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED ICR; MICE, NUDE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; PREGNANCY; RABBITS; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS; TISSUE BANKS; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS;

EID: 0036902531     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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