Can prepubertal human testicular tissue be cryopreserved by vitrification?

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 95, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 2123.e9-2123.e12

  Curaba, Mara ^a   Poels, Jonathan ^a   Van Langendonckt, Anne ^a   Donnez, Jacques ^a,b   Wyns, Christine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^b CLINIQUES UNIVERSITAIRES SAINT LUC   (Belgium)

Author keywords

cryopreservation; fertility preservation; long term in vitro organotypic culture; Prepubertal human testicular tissue; slow freezing; vitrification

Indexed keywords

KI 67 ANTIGEN; MELANOMA ANTIGEN 4;

ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; ARTICLE; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; CASE REPORT; CELL ADHESION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CHILD; CHRONIC GRANULOMATOUS DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FREEZING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; PREPUBERTY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE; SERTOLI CELL; SPERMATOGONIUM; TESTIS; VITRIFICATION;

EID: 79954470709     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2011.01.014     Document Type: Article

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