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The financial support from the Novo Nordic Foundation, Sophus Carl Emil Friis and wife Olga Doris Friis’ foundation, the Lundbeck Foundation, and the University Hospital of Copenhagen is gratefully acknowledged.
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Strauss, S., Greve, T., Ernst, E. et al. Administration of DHEA augments progesterone production in a woman with low ovarian reserve being transplanted with cryopreserved ovarian tissue. J Assist Reprod Genet 31, 645–649 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10815-014-0214-3
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