Current concepts and future trends in male germ cell cryobanking

Frontiers in Bioscience - Elite

Volumn 1 E, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 367-380

  Pasqualotto, Fabio Firmbach ^a,b   Borges, Edson ^c   Pasqualotto, Eleonora Bedin ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAXIAS DO SUL   (Brazil)

^b Conception Center for Human Reproduction ^*  (Brazil)

^c Fertility Assisted Fertilization Center   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Cryopreservation; Germ Cell; Male; Oxidative Stress; Review; Sperm

Indexed keywords

CRYOPRESERVATION; CYTOLOGY; HUMAN; INFERTILITY THERAPY; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; METHODOLOGY; OOCYTE; REVIEW; SPERM RETRIEVAL; SPERMATOZOON; TEMPERATURE;

CRYOPRESERVATION; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; OOCYTES; REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES, ASSISTED; SPERM RETRIEVAL; SPERMATOZOA; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 77953636187     PISSN: 19450494     EISSN: 19450508     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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