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Success in cryopreservation of ovarian tissue (OT) in animal models has led to develop efficient cryo-technologies for human ovarian tissue. In this chapter, cryopreservation protocols developed for animal experiments are described.
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Kim, S.K., Lee, J.R., Samuel Kim, S. (2017). Chapter 2 Utility of Animal Models for Human Ovarian Tissue Cryopreservation. In: Nagy, Z., Varghese, A., Agarwal, A. (eds) Cryopreservation of Mammalian Gametes and Embryos. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 1568. Humana Press, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-6828-2_2
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