Schönfeldt, Viktoria von; Chandolia, Ramesh; Ochsenkühn, Robert; Nieschlag, Eberhard; Nieschlag, E.; Kiesel, Ludwig; Sonntag, Barbara: FSH prevents depletion of the resting follicle pool by promoting follicular number and morphology in fresh and cryopreserved primate ovarian tissues following [...]
Inhalt
- Background
- Methods
- Animals
- Cryopreservation
- Surgical procedures
- FSH treatment of xenografted ovarian tissue
- Graft retrieval and procession of tissue
- Histological evaluation
- Statistical analysis
- Results
- Histological analysis of xenotransplanted frozen ovarian tissues
- FSH effects on follicular loss in fresh and frozen-thawed tissues following xenotransplantation
- FSH promotes follicular morphology following xenotransplantation
- Proportions of primary follicles in grafted tissues are influenced by FSH treatment and previous cryopreservation
- Discussion
- Conclusions
- Competing interests
- Authors’ contributions
- Acknowledgements
- Author details
- References