title: Offspring from heterotopic transplantation of newborn mice ovaries.
abstract: This study is aimed at investigating the developmental potential of the primordial follicles from ovaries of newborn mice after cryopreservation in liquid nitrogen for long-term storage, thawing, and heterografting into the kidney capsules of ovariectomized adult female mice. After stimulation of recipient mice with pregnant mare serum gonadotropin on day-19 after heterografting, the primordial follicles of the transplanted ovaries could develop into antral follicles. When the oocyte-cumulus cell complexes were retrieved from these antral follicles, they could mature after in vitro culture for 16–17 h. After in vitro fertilization, the rates of embryos derived from these oocytes that developed into the two-cell stage and the blastocyst stage after 16–17 h and after day-4, respectively,in the culture medium were 55.40% (55/107) and 9.09% (5/55),respectively. In the ovarian transplantation groups, no pups were derived from the 410 embryos that were transferred into 10 pseudopregnant mothers at the pronuclear stage. However,of the 10 surrogate mothers in whom 570 embryos were transferred at the two-cell stage, four achieved pregnancy and gave birth to 20 live offspring. These results demonstrated that primordial follicles in newborn mice ovaries were capable of sustaining their developmental potential after freezing and thawing. Once transplanted into the kidney capsules of ovariectomized adult female mice, these primordial follicles could develop and respond to gonadotropin stimulation and reach the antral stage; further, live offspring could be derived from these follicles.
authors.affiliation: Center for Developmental Biology, Xinhua Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, School of Medicine, Shanghai, China.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: B-L
authors.initials: BL
authors.lastname: Qin
authors.forename: W-L
authors.initials: WL
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Z-D
authors.initials: ZD
authors.lastname: Shi
authors.forename: Y-B
authors.initials: YB
authors.lastname: Tian
authors.forename: X-J
authors.initials: XJ
authors.lastname: Chen
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000831:Animals, Newborn; D001755:Blastocyst / Q000502:physiology; D002469:Cell Separation; D015925:Cryopreservation; D004624:Embryo Transfer; D047108:Embryonic Development; D005260:Female; D005307:Fertilization in Vitro; D006064:Gonadotropins, Equine / Q000494:pharmacology; D051379:Mice; D008807:Mice, Inbred BALB C; D008810:Mice, Inbred C57BL; D008813:Mice, Inbred ICR; D009865:Oocytes / Q000502:physiology*; D006080:Ovarian Follicle / Q000502:physiology; D010053:Ovary / Q000502:physiology* / Q000637:transplantation*; D011247:Pregnancy; D016042:Transplantation, Heterotopic
chemical_list: D006064:Gonadotropins, Equine