Sentences with phrase «ovarian tissue from»

Egg cells can also be preserved in their hundreds of thousands by collecting ovarian tissue from reproductively active females that die in captivity and dunking it in liquid nitrogen.

Tal Biron - Shental, a gynecologist at Meir Hospital in Israel, also faced intense criticism when she described her team's attempts to cultivate ovarian tissue from 22 - to 33 - week - old aborted fetuses.

The HFEA report had the same reason for opposing the use of fetuses, albeit in less emotive language: «The public... may feel an instinctive repugnance to the use of ovarian tissue from these sources for research or fertility treatment.»

In this study, researchers analyzed ovarian tissue from populations of reproductively «young» (equivalent to women in their early twenties) and «old» mice (equivalent to women ages 38 - 45).

Not exact matches

Sara Matthews, a consultant gynecologist at the Portland hospital, said that within three months of having her ovarian tissue re-implanted, Al Matrooshi went from being menopausal to having the ovary function of a normal woman in her 20s.

ONPRC researchers also have been investigating two ways of maturing follicles from cryopreserved, thawed tissue: transplanting strips of ovarian tissue back into a monkey's body, or growing the tissue in vitro by encapsulating individual follicles in a biomaterial that mimics an ovary.

The team tried this method with two types of body cells: ovarian cells from an adult and connective tissue cells from a fetus.

Researchers looked at tissue samples from ovarian cancer patients.

Researchers from Haukeland University Hospital in Bergen, Norway, and colleagues analyzed for potential impact of normal tissue BRCA1 methylation on ovarian cancer risk.

A HUMAN ovary grown in the lab from slivers of ovarian tissue has been able to turn an immature egg into one that is ready to be fertilised.

In their research, scientists at Rutgers created animal models that closely resemble the cancerous tumors found in women with ovarian cancer by injecting tumor tissues obtained from gynecological cancer patients treated at the Cancer Institute into laboratory mice.

The study team assessed three sets of outcomes: a maturational index (MI) based on epithelial cells from the children's urogenital tissue; ultrasound measurements of uterine, ovarian and testicular volume, as well as breast - buds; and hormone concentrations seen in blood tests.

The process from beginning to end, starting with immature eggs within ovarian tissue before reaching mature eggs in the final bottom right image (Credit: Prof Evelyn Telfer and Dr Marie McLaughlin, the University of Edinburgh)

The process from beginning to end, starting with immature eggs within ovarian tissue before reaching mature eggs in the final bottom right image

To prepare ovarian cells, ovarian tissues were isolated from 1 - day - old F2 female mice produced by interbreeding C57BL6 × CBA F1 mice.

Their three - dimensional cell - culture system, adapted for high - throughput screening, has enabled them to identify small molecules that can inhibit adhesion and invasion, preventing ovarian cancers from spreading to nearby tissues.

«The success of this treatment offers the possibility of infertile women having stored ovarian tissue transplanted from other women.

Estrogen (from estrus, meaning «heat» or «fertility») is the dominant hormone for the first week or so after menstruation, stimulating the buildup of tissue and blood in the uterus as the ovarian follicles simultaneously begin their development of the egg.

Ovarian cysts can also be related to endometriosis, or formed from the outer surface of the ovary (cystadenomas), or formed with non-ovarian tissue (dermoid cysts).

It appears that some females possess accessory ovarian tissue separate from the main ovary and this tissue becomes active only after the main ovaries are removed.