To date, no transplant has allowed pregnancy from a donor in a state of brain death. One of the main reservations lies in the ischemic properties of the uterine graft between the sampling time and the grafting time. Investigators propose to carry out a prospective monocentric study at the University Hospitals of Strasbourg in 2018/2019: the objective would be to study physiologically the time of ischemia of the uterine muscle The objective is to carry out a preparatory study on healthy uteri to study the ischemic properties of uterine muscle from living markers: study of mitochondrial respiration and free radical production on uterine muscle samples If the markers are reliable, they would then be used to measure the ischemia of whole uteri collected at the end of the multi-organ retrieval process from donors in a state of brain death and stored in tissue survival media.
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Ischemia
Timeframe: 1 hour after sampling