title: A novel technique for oviduct occlusion to generate live births from cryopreserved rabbit oocytes after in vivo fertilisation.
abstract: Intraoviductal transfer technique in combination with in vivo fertilisation has arisen as an effective technique to assess live births after transfer of slow-frozen oocytes in the rabbit. Nevertheless, the great disadvantage of this method is the accumulation of tubal fluid in a large number of females after clamping the oviducts. In this study, we develop an alternative method to minimise damage to the oviduct and increase the birth rate. The aims of this study were (1) to evaluate the ability of cyanoacrylate tissue adhesive to occlude the oviduct for female sterilisation; (2) to evaluate the effect of oviduct occlusion immediately after transferring fresh oocytes on in vivo fertilisation; and (3) to assess this technique to generate live births from fresh and slow-frozen oocytes. In all the experiments, recipients were artificially inseminated 9h prior to occluding the oviducts. In the first experiment, the left oviduct was blocked with cyanoacrylate tissue adhesive, while the right one was used as a control. Six days later, oviducts and uterine horns were flushed to assess embryo recovery rates. While the embryo recovery rate was 79.2% in the intact oviduct, no embryos were recovered in the blocked one. In the second experiment, fresh oocytes were transferred into both oviducts, which were immediately occluded. Six days later, the in vivo fertilisation success rate was 33.7%. Finally, in the last experiment, slow-frozen oocytes were transferred and the rate of live births was 13.2±4.5%. The study shows that when using this method the generation of live births from slow-frozen oocytes increases significantly. In addition, our results suggest that in vivo environment could help improve the results of oocyte cryopreservation.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Science and Animal Technology, Laboratorio de Biotecnología de la Reproducción, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Valencia 46022, Spain.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Jiménez-Trigos
authors.affiliation: Institute of Science and Animal Technology, Laboratorio de Biotecnología de la Reproducción, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Valencia 46022, Spain.
authors.forename: J S
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Vicente
authors.affiliation: Institute of Science and Animal Technology, Laboratorio de Biotecnología de la Reproducción, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Valencia 46022, Spain. Electronic address: fmarco@dca.upv.es.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Marco-Jiménez
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D015925:Cryopreservation / Q000662:veterinary; D003487:Cyanoacrylates / Q000627:therapeutic use; D005260:Female; D005306:Fertilization / Q000502:physiology*; D015181:Gamete Intrafallopian Transfer / Q000379:methods* / Q000662:veterinary; D050498:Live Birth / Q000662:veterinary*; D009865:Oocytes; D010057:Oviducts / Q000601:surgery; D011247:Pregnancy; D011817:Rabbits; D060205:Therapeutic Occlusion / Q000379:methods* / Q000662:veterinary; D014014:Tissue Adhesives / Q000627:therapeutic use
chemical_list: D003487:Cyanoacrylates; D014014:Tissue Adhesives
keywords: Blocked oviduct; Cyanoacrylate tissue adhesive; Intraoviductal transfer; Laparoscopy; Rabbit