Transplantation of frozen-thawed late-gestational-age human fetal ovaries into immunodeficient mice

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 92, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 770-777

  Abir, Ronit ^a   Biron Shental, Tal ^a   Orvieto, Raoul ^a   Garor, Roni ^a   Krissi, Haim ^a   Fisch, Benjamin ^a  

^a RABIN MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

developing follicles; DMSO; Human fetal ovaries; PCNA; primordial follicles; PROH

Indexed keywords

CYCLINE; DIMETHYL SULFOXIDE; FOLLITROPIN; PROPYLENE GLYCOL; SUCROSE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOPRESERVATION; FEMALE; FETUS; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KIDNEY GRAFT; MORPHOMETRICS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; OVARY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THAWING;

ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; CRYOPRESERVATION; FEMALE; FETUS; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, NUDE; MICE, SCID; OVARY;

EID: 67749091277     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2008.06.032     Document Type: Article

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