Melatonin promotes the cumulus-oocyte complexes quality of vitrified-thawed murine ovaries; with increased mean number of follicles survival and ovary size following heterotopic transplantation

European Journal of Pharmacology

Volumn 618, Issue 1-3, 2009, Pages 84-90

  Hemadi, Masoud ^a,b   Abolhassani, Farid ^a   Akbari, Mohammad ^a   Sobhani, Aligholi ^a   Pasbakhsh, Parichehr ^a   Ährlund Richter, Lars ^b   Modaresi, Mohammad H ^a   Salehnia, Mojdeh ^c  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c TARBIAT MODARES UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Follicular survival and growth; Heterotopic; Melatonin; Ovary; Oxidative stress; Transplantation; Vitrification

Indexed keywords

MELATONIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CELL MATURATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUMULUS CELL; FEMALE; HETEROTOPIC TRANSPLANTATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; ORGAN SIZE; OVARY; OVARY FOLLICLE CELL; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THAWING; VITRIFICATION;

ANIMALS; CUMULUS CELLS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; MELATONIN; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED CBA; OOCYTES; ORGAN SIZE; OVARIAN FOLLICLE; OVARIECTOMY; OVARY; TISSUE SURVIVAL; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROTOPIC; VAGINA;

EID: 68949175354     PISSN: 00142999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejphar.2009.07.018     Document Type: Article

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