Alginate beads as a tool to handle, cryopreserve and culture isolated human primordial/primary follicles

Cryobiology

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 64-69

  Camboni, A ^a   Van Langendonckt, A ^a   Donnez, J ^a   Vanacker, J ^a   Dolmans, M M ^a   Amorim, C A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Alginate hydrogel; Follicle cryopreservation; Follicle isolation; Human ovary; In vitro culture; Primordial follicles

Indexed keywords

ALGINIC ACID; DIMETHYL SULFOXIDE; ETHYLENE GLYCOL;

ARTICLE; BIOPSY TECHNIQUE; CELL COUNT; CELL DEATH; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOPRESERVATION; EMBEDDING; FEMALE; FREEZE THAWING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IN VITRO STUDY; OOCYTE; OVARY FOLLICLE; OVARY FOLLICLE CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPARATION TECHNIQUE; TISSUE CULTURE;

ADULT; ALGINATES; CELL SURVIVAL; CELLS, CULTURED; CRYOPRESERVATION; CRYOPROTECTIVE AGENTS; DIMETHYL SULFOXIDE; ETHYLENE GLYCOL; FEMALE; FREEZING; GLUCURONIC ACID; HEXURONIC ACIDS; HUMANS; OVARIAN FOLLICLE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84879550041     PISSN: 00112240     EISSN: 10902392     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cryobiol.2013.05.002     Document Type: Article

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