The front cover shows the vascularisation of transplanted ovarian follicles using intravital fluorescence microscopy in a skinfold chamber model in Syrian golden hamsters. Note the lack of nutritive capillaries within the freshly isolated and transplanted graft (A depicted by arrows). Newly formed microvessels create a network at 2 days after transplantation (B), although a substantial part of the follicular graft still lacks vascularisation (asterisk). At day 7 after transplantation (C) the follicular graft exhibits a complete glomerulum-like microvascular network with multiple intercapillary anastomoses arrows) between the follicular capillaries and the striated muscle capillaries of the dorsal skinfold. See Bordel et al., pages 610-617.
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