Fertility after intact ovary transplantation.
Transplantation surgery, which is limited by the supply and short-term viability of fresh donor organs, would be revolutionized if these could survive freezing, but early claims of cryopreservation were never realized. Here we describe the successful transplantation in rats of ovaries, fallopian tubes and the upper segment of the uterus en bloc after storage in liquid nitrogen.
Wang
Xiang
X
Laboratory of Experimental Surgery, Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal, Notre-Dame Hospital, Montreal, Quebec H2L 4M1, Canada.
Chen
Huifang
H
Yin
Hang
H
Kim
S Samuel
SS
Lin Tan
Seang
S
Gosden
Roger G
RG
D000818:Animals; D015925:Cryopreservation; D005187:Fallopian Tubes / Q000637:transplantation; D005260:Female; D005298:Fertility; D009584:Nitrogen; D010053:Ovary / Q000502:physiology / Q000637:transplantation*; D051381:Rats; D011917:Rats, Inbred Lew; D014599:Uterus / Q000637:transplantation
D009584:Nitrogen