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Nature 428, 137-138 (11 March 2004) | doi:10.1038/428137a;

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Live birth after ovarian tissue transplant

Radiation and high-dose chemotherapy may render women with cancer prematurely sterile, a side-effect that would be avoided if ovarian tissue that had been removed before treatment could be made to function afterwards. Live offspring have been produced from transplanted ovarian tissue in mice and sheep but not in monkeys or humans, although sex steroid hormones are still secreted.

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