Options for fertility preservation in prepubertal boys

C Wyns, M Curaba, B Vanabelle… - Human reproduction …, 2010 - academic.oup.com
BACKGROUND Fertility in adult life may be severely impaired by gonadotoxic therapies. For
young boys who do not yet produce spermatozoa, cryopreservation of immature testicular …

New horizons for in vitro spermatogenesis? An update on novel three-dimensional culture systems as tools for meiotic and post-meiotic differentiation of testicular …

JB Stukenborg, S Schlatt, M Simoni… - Molecular human …, 2009 - academic.oup.com
Culture and differentiation of male germ cells has been performed for various purposes in
the past. To date, none of the studies aimed at in vitro spermatogenesis has resulted in a …

Three-dimensional testicular organoid: a novel tool for the study of human spermatogenesis and gonadotoxicity in vitro

SS Pendergraft, H Sadri-Ardekani, A Atala… - Biology of …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Existing methods for evaluating the potential gonadotoxicity of environmental agents and
pharmaceutical compounds rely heavily on animal studies. The current gold standard in vivo …

Haploid germ cells generated in organotypic culture of testicular tissue from prepubertal boys

F De Michele, J Poels, M Vermeulen… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
While in mice various studies have described the completion of spermatogenesis in vitro
using either organotypic culture of prepubertal testicular tissue or 3D culture of isolated cells …

[HTML][HTML] Biomaterial strategies for the application of reproductive tissue engineering

X Liu, K Wu, L Gao, L Wang, X Shi - Bioactive Materials, 2022 - Elsevier
Human reproductive organs are of vital importance to the life of an individual and the
reproduction of human populations. So far, traditional methods have a limited effect in …

Coculture of spermatogonia with somatic cells in a novel three‐dimensional soft‐agar‐culture‐system

JB Stukenborg, J Wistuba, CM Luetjens… - Journal of …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Isolation and culture of spermatogonial stem cells (SSCs) has become an approach to study
the milieu and the factors controlling their expansion and differentiation. Traditional …

Testicular organoids: a new model to study the testicular microenvironment in vitro?

JP Alves-Lopes, JB Stukenborg - Human Reproduction Update, 2018 - academic.oup.com
BACKGROUND In recent decades, a broad range of strategies have been applied to model
the testicular microenvironment in vitro. These models have been utilized to study testicular …

In vitro production of mouse morphological sperm in artificial testis bioengineered by 3D printing of extracellular matrix

Z Bashiri, M Gholipourmalekabadi, R Falak… - International Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Since autologous stem cell transplantation is prone to cancer recurrence, in vitro sperm
production is regarded a safer approach to fertility preservation. In this study, the …

Human organoid systems in modeling reproductive tissue development, function, and disease

S Haider, AG Beristain - Human Reproduction, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Research focused on human reproductive biology has primarily relied upon clinical samples
affording mainly descriptive studies with limited implementation of functional or mechanistic …

In‐vitro spermatogenesis through testis modelling: Toward the generation of testicular organoids

G Richer, Y Baert, E Goossens - Andrology, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Background The testicular organoid concept has recently been introduced in tissue
engineering to refer to testicular cell organizations modeling testicular architecture and …