TY - JOUR
AU - Albertini, David
AB - J Assist Reprod Genet (2011) 28:759–760 DOI 10.1007/s10815-011-9624-7 EDITOR'S COMMENTARY David F. Albertini Published online: 26 August 2011 Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2011 The scanning electron micrograph gracing our cover this tissues into donor patients. This approach has received month will prompt curiosity and ambiguity among our encouragement, direction, and tractability from the pioneer- readership. While suggesting to some a landscape of ing studies of Silber; Gosden; Donnez and Meirow among otherworldly origins, and to others a spongiform like- others. The scenario exploited in these highly publicized liness you might find in a kitchen sink, it, in fact, cases involves whole ovary transplantation or transplanta- portends the stuff of regenerative medicine that we are tion of strips of ovarian cortex that have re-established hearing more and more about these days. This image cyclicity and reproductive competence to the small but represents an artificial matrix used to culture pieces of fortunate number of patients who have benefitted from such ovary in an attempt to reconstruct and/or preserve the treatments. follicle reserve of ovarian tissue. Using such artificial While many obstacles remain with respect to the use of substrates, studies from the laboratory of Dr. Ronit Abir, tissue or whole organ 
TI - Deconstructing a path to reconstructing reproductive organs
JF - Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics
DO - 10.1007/s10815-011-9624-7
DA - 2011-08-26
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/springer-journals/deconstructing-a-path-to-reconstructing-reproductive-organs-NSAqWhiigU
SP - 759
EP - 760
VL - 28
IS - 9
DP - DeepDyve
ER -