Comparison of in vitro- and chorioallantoic membrane (CAM)-culture systems for cryopreserved medulla-contained human ovarian tissue

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Isachenko, Vladimir ^a   Mallmann, Peter ^a   Petrunkina, Anna M ^b,c   Rahimi, Gohar ^a   Nawroth, Frank ^d   Hancke, Katharina ^e   Felberbaum, Ricardo ^e   Genze, Felicitas ^f   Damjanoski, Ilija ^f   Isachenko, Evgenia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE HANNOVER   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d Center for Endocrinology and Reproductive Medicine in Barkhof   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DESMIN; VON WILLEBRAND FACTOR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANGIOGENESIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOPRESERVATION; CULTURE MEDIUM; EMBRYONIC CHORIOALLANTOIC MEMBRANE CULTURE; FEMALE; FREEZE THAWING; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOHISTOLOGY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; IN VITRO CULTURE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NONHUMAN; OVARY FOLLICLE DEVELOPMENT; SURVIVAL RATE; TISSUE CULTURE TECHNIQUE; TISSUE PREPARATION; TISSUE PRESERVATION; XENOTRANSPLANTATION; ZYGOTE; ANIMAL; CHICK EMBRYO; CHORIOALLANTOIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MOUSE; MOUSE MUTANT; OVARY; OVARY FOLLICLE; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; TIME; TRANSPLANTATION; VASCULARIZATION; XENOGRAFT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANIMALS; CHICK EMBRYO; CHORIOALLANTOIC MEMBRANE; CRYOPRESERVATION; DESMIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICE; MICE, SCID; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PHYSIOLOGIC; OVARIAN FOLLICLE; OVARY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TIME FACTORS; TISSUE CULTURE TECHNIQUES; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS; VON WILLEBRAND FACTOR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84859149156     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0032549     Document Type: Article

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