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With the ultimate goal of establishing an ovum “bank,” research has been conducted by our group on obtaining oocytes from several sources. These include immature oocytes from unstimulated ovaries, oocytes from isolated early-stage follicles from adult ovaries, and oocytes from primordial follicles from fetal ovarian tissue. This chapter reviews our work on the in vitro maturation of immature oocytes, the in vitro culture of isolated ovarian follicles or fetal ovarian tissue, and the cryopreservation of these sources.
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Cha, KY. (1997). Planning for the Future: Immature Oocytes and Early-Stage Ovarian Follicles. In: Lobo, R.A. (eds) Perimenopause. Serono Symposia USA. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-2288-0_25
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