Setting up a cryopreservation programme for immature testicular tissue: lessons learned after more than 15 years of experience

A Braye, H Tournaye… - Clinical Medicine Insights …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
Young boys undergoing gonadotoxic treatments are at high risk of spermatogonial stem cell
(SSC) loss and fertility problems later in life. Stem cell loss can also occur in specific genetic …

[HTML][HTML] Establishing reference values for age-related spermatogonial quantity in prepubertal human testes: a systematic review and meta-analysis

I Masliukaite, JM Hagen, K Jahnukainen… - Fertility and …, 2016 - Elsevier
Objective To collect published data on spermatogonial quantity in the testes of healthy
children and calculate the reference values of spermatogonial quantities throughout …

A prospective study on the long‐term outcome of prepubertal and pubertal boys undergoing testicular biopsy for fertility preservation prior to hematologic stem cell …

B Borgström, M Fridström, B Gustafsson… - Pediatric Blood & …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Background Few studies have reported the long‐term outcomes of prepubertal and pubertal
boys undergoing testicular biopsy for fertility preservation (FP). Procedure This prospective …

[HTML][HTML] A comprehensive review and update on human fertility cryopreservation methods and tools

S Antonouli, V Di Nisio, C Messini… - Frontiers in Veterinary …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
The broad conceptualization of fertility preservation and restoration has become already a
major concern in the modern western world since a large number of individuals often face it …

Fertility preservation for prepubertal boys: are we ready for autologous grafting of cryopreserved immature testicular tissue?

M Kanbar, G Delwiche, C Wyns - Annales d'endocrinologie, 2022 - Elsevier
Fertility preservation in prepubertal boys is a matter that has been gaining ground fast during
the past 20 years. As the life expectancy for childhood cancer survivors continues to …

Cryostorage of immature and mature human testis tissue to preserve spermatogonial stem cells (SSCs): a systematic review of current experiences toward clinical …

NP Zarandi, G Galdon, S Kogan, A Atala… - Stem cells and …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
While the survival rate of children with cancer is increasing, preserving fertility for
prepubertal boys is still a challenge. Although intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) using …

[HTML][HTML] Spermatogonial stem cell culture in oncofertility

S David, KE Orwig - Urologic Clinics, 2020 - urologic.theclinics.com
Advancements in cancer therapies over the past several decades have led to a rise in
pediatric cancer survival rates to approximately 88%. 1 This increase in cancer survivorship …

[HTML][HTML] Effects of clinical medications on male fertility and prospects for stem cell therapy

P Mo, Z Zhao, X Ke, Y Fan, C Li - Frontiers in Cell and Developmental …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
An increasing number of men require long-term drug therapy for various diseases. However,
the effects of long-term drug therapy on male fertility are often not well evaluated in clinical …

[HTML][HTML] Fertility preservation: testicular transplantation for fertility preservation: clinical potential and current challenges

KR Kilcoyne, RT Mitchell - Reproduction, 2019 - rep.bioscientifica.com
Transplantation of testicular tissues and cells has been proposed as a future clinical option
for patients who have had testicular tissue cryopreserved prior to receiving gonadotoxic …

[HTML][HTML] Granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF) promotes spermatogenic regeneration from surviving spermatogonia after high-dose alkylating chemotherapy

T Kotzur, R Benavides-Garcia, J Mecklenburg… - Reproductive Biology …, 2017 - Springer
Background The lifesaving chemotherapy and radiation treatments that allow patients to
survive cancer can also result in a lifetime of side-effects, including male infertility. Infertility …