Current status of uterus transplantation in primates and issues for clinical application

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 100, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 280-294

  Kisu, Iori ^a   Banno, Kouji ^a   Mihara, Makoto ^b   Suganuma, Nobuhiko ^c   Aoki, Daisuke ^a  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Mayer Rokitansky K ster Hauser syndrome; surrogacy; uterine factor infertility; Uterus transplantation

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; CALCINEURIN INHIBITOR; CORTICOSTEROID; CYCLOSPORIN; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; PREDNISONE; STEROID; TACROLIMUS; THYMOCYTE ANTIBODY;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; FEMALE INFERTILITY; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; LIVING DONOR; MAINTENANCE THERAPY; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDLINE; PREGNANCY; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAUDI ARABIA; SIDE EFFECT; SOCIAL PROBLEM; SWEDEN; TERATOGENESIS; TRANSPLANTATION; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); UTERUS PROLAPSE; UTERUS TRANSPLANTATION;

ANIMALS; ETHICS, CLINICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; PREGNANCY; PRIMATES; UTERUS;

EID: 84879695035     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: 15565653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2013.03.004     Document Type: Article

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