Transplantation of intact rat gonads using vascular anastomosis: effects of cryopreservation, ischaemia and genotype

Abstract

The effects of gonadectomy in rats can be reversed by isotransplants, but the results are more successful with ovaries than testes, and allotransplants were never successful. Intact cryopreserved ovaries can be restored to function after transplantation with vascular anastomoses.