title: Fertility after intact ovary transplantation.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Experimental Surgery, Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal, Notre-Dame Hospital, Montreal, Quebec H2L 4M1, Canada.
authors.forename: Xiang
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Huifang
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Hang
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Yin
authors.forename: S Samuel
authors.initials: SS
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Seang
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Lin Tan
authors.forename: Roger G
authors.initials: RG
authors.lastname: Gosden
mesh_terms: 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
chemical_list: D009584:Nitrogen