Preservation and transplantation of porcine testis tissue

Reproduction, Fertility and Development

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 489-497

  Zeng, W ^a   Snedaker, A K ^a   Megee, S ^a   Rathi, R ^a   Chen, F ^a   Honaramooz, A ^a,b   Dobrinski, I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cooling; Cryopreservation; Grafting; Spermatogenesis

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL VIABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; COOLING; CRYOPRESERVATION; FREEZING; GERM CELL; HOST; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; SPERMATID; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON; STORAGE; SWINE; TEMPERATURE; TESTIS; THAWING; TISSUE PRESERVATION; TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION; VITRIFICATION; XENOGRAFT;

ANIMALS; CELL SURVIVAL; COLD TEMPERATURE; CRYOPRESERVATION; HOT TEMPERATURE; MALE; MICE; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOA; SWINE; TESTIS; TISSUE PRESERVATION; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROTOPIC;

MAMMALIA; SUS;

EID: 62549112209     PISSN: 10313613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/RD08235     Document Type: Article

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