Preliminary observations on whole-ovary xenotransplantation as an experimental model for fertility preservation

Reproductive BioMedicine Online

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 621-626

  Nichols Burns, Stephanie M ^a   Lotz, Laura ^a   Schneider, Heike ^a   Adamek, Edyta ^a   Daniel, Christoph ^a   Stief, Andrea ^a   Grigo, Christina ^a   Klump, Dorothee ^a   Hoffmann, Inge ^a   Beckmann, Matthias W ^a   Dittrich, Ralf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ERLANGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

fertility preservation; follicle loss; whole organ transplantation; xenograft model

Indexed keywords

ANASTOMOSIS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL PIG; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; FERTILITY PRESERVATION; FIBROSIS; GYNECOLOGIC SURGERY; HISTOLOGY; NONHUMAN; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; OVARY FOLLICLE; OVARY FUNCTION; RAT; STROMA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR PEDICLE; WHOLE OVARY XENOTRANSPLANTATION; XENOGRAFT; XENOTRANSPLANTATION; ANIMAL; COMPLICATION; CRYOPRESERVATION; FERTILITY; ISCHEMIA; NEOPLASMS; NUDE RAT; OVARY; PATHOLOGY; PERFUSION; PIG; PROCEDURES; TISSUE PRESERVATION; TRANSPLANTATION;

ANIMALS; CRYOPRESERVATION; FEMALE; FERTILITY; FERTILITY PRESERVATION; ISCHEMIA; MODELS, ANIMAL; NEOPLASMS; OVARIAN FOLLICLE; OVARY; PERFUSION; RATS; RATS, NUDE; SWINE; TISSUE PRESERVATION; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS;

EID: 84908397804     PISSN: 14726483     EISSN: 14726491     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rbmo.2014.07.017     Document Type: Article

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