Uterine transplantation: A promising surrogate to surrogacy?

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1221, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 47-53

  Grynberg, Michael ^a,b,c   Ayoubi, Jean Marc ^d   Bulletti, Carlo ^e   Frydman, Rene ^a,b,c   Fanchin, Renato ^a,b,c  

^a HÔPITAL ANTOINE BÉCLÈRE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^c INSERM   (France)

^d FOCH HOSPITAL   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Fertility preservation; Transplantation; Uterine infertility; Uterus

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; BASILIXIMAB; CORTICOSTEROID; CYCLOSPORIN; DACLIZUMAB; ESTROGEN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; MERCAPTOPURINE; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID; OKT 3; POLYCLONAL ANTIBODY; PROGESTERONE; RAPAMYCIN; STEROID; TACROLIMUS; THYMOCYTE ANTIBODY;

ACUTE GRAFT REJECTION; ANTIGEN ANTIBODY COMPLEX; ARTICLE; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CHRONIC GRAFT REJECTION; COMPLEMENT SYSTEM; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; ESTROGEN BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMAN; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; HYPERACUTE GRAFT REJECTION; HYSTERECTOMY; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; MEDICAL ETHICS; NONHUMAN; OVARIAN VEIN; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PROGESTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; REVASCULARIZATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SYSTEMIC CIRCULATION; TRANSPLANTATION; UTERINE ARTERY; UTERINE BLOOD VESSEL; UTERINE TRANSPLANTATION; UTEROOVARIAN PLEXUS; UTEROVAGINAL VENOUS PLEXUS; UTERUS; UTERUS BLOOD FLOW;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 79952681127     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2011.05952.x     Document Type: Article

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