Orthotopic grafting of cryopreserved prepubertal testicular tissue: In search of a simple yet effective cryopreservation protocol

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 97, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Baert, Yoni ^a   Goossens, Ellen ^a   Van Saen, Dorien ^a   Ning, Liang ^a   In'T Veld, Peter ^a   Tournaye, Herman ^a,b  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^b CENTRE FOR REPRODUCTIVE MEDICINE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

cryopreservation; electron microscopy; male infertility; spermatogenesis; Stem cells; transplantation; vitrification

Indexed keywords

ALLOGRAFT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOPRESERVATION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ORTHOTOPIC TRANSPLANTATION; PREPUBERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLID SURFACE VITRIFICATION; SOMATIC CELL; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOGONIUM; STEM CELL; TESTIS; TESTIS FUNCTION; UNCONTROLLED SLOW FREEZING; VITRIFICATION;

EID: 84860332258     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: 15565653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2012.02.010     Document Type: Article

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