Fertility and Sterility
Volume 89, Issue 6 , Pages 1787-1794 , June 2008

Follicular growth and estradiol follow-up after subcutaneous xenografting of fresh and cryopreserved human ovarian tissue

  • Benoit Schubert, M.D., Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Biology of Development and Reproduction–CECOS, CHU Clermont-Ferrand, Clermont-Ferrand, France
    • Biology of Reproduction, Faculty of Medicine, University Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand, France
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Benoit Schubert, M.D., Groupe hospitalier Pitié-Salpêtrière, Unitē fonctionelle de Biologie de la Reproduction, Pavillon Benjamin Delessert, 83 boulevard de l'Hôpital, 75651 Paris Cedex 13, France (FAX: +33-1-42-17-78-89).
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  • Michel Canis, M.D., Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Human Reproduction, CHU Clermont-Ferrand, Clermont-Ferrand, France
    • Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, University Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand, France
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  • Claude Darcha, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Pathology Laboratory, CHU Clermont-Ferrand, Clermont-Ferrand, France
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  • Christine Artonne, B.S.

      Affiliations

    • Biology of Reproduction, Faculty of Medicine, University Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand, France
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  • Johan Smitz, M.D., Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • RIA Laboratory, Center for Reproductive Medicine, Academisch Ziekenhuis Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Brussels, Belgium
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  • Genevieve Grizard, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Biology of Development and Reproduction–CECOS, CHU Clermont-Ferrand, Clermont-Ferrand, France
    • Biology of Reproduction, Faculty of Medicine, University Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand, France

Received 4 October 2006 ,Revised 30 March 2007 ,Accepted 30 March 2007.

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 This work was supported by a hospital grant (PHRC).

PII: S0015-0282(07)00998-3

doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2007.03.101

Fertility and Sterility
Volume 89, Issue 6 , Pages 1787-1794 , June 2008

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