Bioengineering the ovarian follicle microenvironment

Annual Review of Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 16, Issue , 2014, Pages 29-52

  Shea, Lonnie D ^a,b,c,d,e,f   Woodruff, Teresa K ^d,e,f   Shikanov, Ariella ^g  

^a McCormick School of Engineering   (United States)

^b Northwestern University   (United States)

^c Institute for BioNanotechnology in Medicine (IBNAM)   (United States)

^d NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e Chemistry of Life Processes Institute (CLP)   (United States)

^f NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

biomaterial; infertility; oncofertility; oocyte; tissue engineering; transplantation

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS PRESERVATION; BIOMATERIALS; PATIENT TREATMENT; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TRANSPLANTATION (SURGICAL);

ENGINEERED SYSTEMS; ENGINEERING PRINCIPLES; INFERTILITY; MICROENVIRONMENTS; ONCOFERTILITY; OOCYTE; PRESERVATION METHODS; REPRODUCTIVE BIOLOGY;

TISSUE;

ALGINIC ACID; BIOMATERIAL; GLUCURONIC ACID; HEXURONIC ACID; HYDROGEL;

BIOENGINEERING; CELL CULTURE; HYDROGEL; MICROENVIRONMENT; OVARY FOLLICLE; OVARY FOLLICLE MATURATION; REVIEW; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY; AGING; ANIMAL; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUE; CHEMISTRY; COMPLICATION; CRYOPRESERVATION; CYTOLOGY; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FERTILITY PRESERVATION; HUMAN; OBESITY; OOCYTE; OVARY; OVARY POLYCYSTIC DISEASE; OVARY TUMOR; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCTION; STEM CELL; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

AGING; ALGINATES; ANIMALS; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CRYOPRESERVATION; FEMALE; FERTILITY PRESERVATION; GLUCURONIC ACID; HEXURONIC ACIDS; HUMANS; HYDROGEL; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; OBESITY; OOCYTES; OVARIAN FOLLICLE; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; OVARY; POLYCYSTIC OVARY SYNDROME; REPRODUCTIVE MEDICINE; STEM CELLS; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

EID: 84904285220     PISSN: 15239829     EISSN: 15454274     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-bioeng-071813-105131     Document Type: Review

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