Abstract：
:Recent advances in assisted reproduction treatment have enabled some couples with severe infertility issues to conceive, but the methods are not successful in all cases. Notwithstanding the significant financial burden of assisted reproduction treatment, the emotional scars from an inability to conceive a child enacts a greater toll on affected couples. While methods have circumvented some root causes for male and female infertility, often the underlying causes cannot be treated, thus true cures for restoring a patient's fertility are limited. Furthermore, the procedures are only available if the affected patients are able to produce gametes. Patients rendered sterile by medical interventions, exposure to toxicants or genetic causes are unable to utilize assisted reproduction to conceive a child - and often resort to donors, where permitted. Stem cells represent a future potential avenue for allowing these sterile patients to produce offspring. Advances in stem cell biology indicate that stem cell replacement therapies or in-vitro differentiation may be on the horizon to treat and could cure male and female infertility, although significant challenges need to be met before this technology can reach clinical practice. This article discusses these advances and describes the impact that these advances may have on treating infertility.
journal_name
Reprod Biomed Onlinejournal_title
Reproductive biomedicine onlineauthors
Easley CA 4th,Simerly CR,Schatten Gdoi
10.1016/j.rbmo.2013.03.003subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2013-07-01 00:00:00pages
75-80issue
1eissn
1472-6483issn
1472-6491pii
S1472-6483(13)00129-6journal_volume
27pub_type
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更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00
