Current options for preservation of fertility in the male

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 96, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 286-290

  Holoch, Peter ^a   Wald, Moshe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cryopreservation; male infertility; sperm retrieval

Indexed keywords

CHLORMETHINE; DIMETHYL SULFOXIDE; DNA; GLYCEROL; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PREDNISONE; PROCARBAZINE; RNA; VINCRISTINE;

ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; APOPTOSIS; ASPERMIA; AZOOSPERMIA; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURVIVOR; CELL ADHESION; CELL FUNCTION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL VIABILITY; CHILDHOOD CANCER; COLD INJURY; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; CRYOPRESERVATION; DNA DAMAGE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GENETIC RISK; GERM LAYER; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMAN; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; LEYDIG CELL; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; MALE FERTILITY; MALE INFERTILITY; MALE STERILITY; NONHUMAN; OLIGOSPERMIA; ORCHIECTOMY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREPUBERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; REVIEW; SERTOLI CELL; SEXUAL COUNSELING; SIDE EFFECT; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOGONIUM; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; SUBFERTILITY; TESTIS BIOPSY; TESTIS CANCER; TISSUE SURVIVAL; VITRIFICATION; WHOLE BODY RADIATION;

EID: 79960630562     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: 15565653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2011.06.028     Document Type: Article

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