Improving posttransplantation survival of human ovarian tissue by treating the host and graft

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 95, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1205-1210

  Abir, Ronit ^a   Fisch, Benjamin ^a   Jessel, Shlomit ^a   Felz, Carmela ^a   Ben Haroush, Avi ^a   Orvieto, Raoul ^b  

^a RABIN MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

gonadotropins; Human ovarian grafts; immonodeficient mice; vascular endothelial growth factor A; vitamin E

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; CYCLINE; FOLLITROPIN; GONADOTROPIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; RECOMBINANT FOLLITROPIN; RECOMBINANT LUTEINIZING HORMONE; VASCULOTROPIN A;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOPRESERVATION; EXPERIMENTAL HOST; FEMALE; FEMALE FERTILITY; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FREEZE THAWING; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LAPAROSCOPY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OVARY; OVARY FOLLICLE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMALS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HOST SPECIFICITY; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, KNOCKOUT; OVARY; TISSUE SURVIVAL; TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79952445888     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2010.07.1082     Document Type: Article

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