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ReviewJournal of clinical medicine2024

Comprehensive Review of In Vitro Human Follicle Development for Fertility Restoration: Recent Achievements, Current Challenges, and Future Optimization Strategies.

Francisco Vitale, Marie-Madeleine Dolmans

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Review in Journal of clinical medicine, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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10citing papers in PubMed
6.0field-weighted citation impact, top 4% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

10 citing papers in PubMed, 11 citations in OpenAlex.

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  4. In Vitro Development of Primordial Follicles from Human Ovarian Tissue.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Francisco VitaleGynecology Research Unit, Institut de Recherche Expérimentale et Clinique, Université Catholique de Louvain, Avenue Mounier 52, 1200 Brussels, Belgium.ORCID 0000-0003-3792-0276
Marie-Madeleine DolmansGynecology Research Unit, Institut de Recherche Expérimentale et Clinique, Université Catholique de Louvain, Avenue Mounier 52, 1200 Brussels, Belgium.ORCID 0000-0002-6331-3026
Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc · BEUCLouvain · BE

Funding

Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique de Belgique FNRS-PDR T.0064.22, CDR J.0063.20, 5/4/150/5
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Ovarian tissue cryopreservation (OTC) and subsequent transplantation (OTT) is a fertility preservation technique widely offered to prepubertal girls and young fertile women who need to undergo oncological treatment but are at a high risk of infertility. However, OTT is not considered safe in patients with certain diseases like leukemia, Burkitt's lymphoma, and ovarian cancer because of the associated risk of malignant cell reintroduction. In vitro follicle development has therefore emerged as a promising means of obtaining mature metaphase II (MII) oocytes from the primordial follicle (PMF) pool contained within cryopreserved ovarian tissue, without the need for transplantation. Despite its significant potential, this novel approach remains highly challenging, as it requires replication of the intricate process of intraovarian folliculogenesis. Recent advances in multi-step in vitro culture (IVC) systems, tailored to the specific needs of each follicle stage, have demonstrated the feasibility of generating mature oocytes (MII) from early-stage human follicles. While significant progress has been made, there is still room for improvement in terms of efficiency and productivity, and a long way to go before this IVC approach can be implemented in a clinical setting. This comprehensive review outlines the most significant improvements in recent years, current limitations, and future optimization strategies.

Indexed as

bovine ovarian tissuefollicle activationfolliculogenesishuman ovarian tissuein vitro culturein vitro growthin vitro maturation

Identifiers

PMID38542015
PMCPMC10970962
OpenAlexW4392985821

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