Whole Ovine Ovaries as a Model for Human: Perfusion with CryoprotectantsIn VivoandIn Vitro
These experiments were performed to test the perfusion of ovine as a model for human ovaries by cryoprotectantsin vivoat high temperature when the permeability of capillaries is high and when blood is insensibly replaced by the solution of cryoprotectants. By our hypothetical supposition, ovaries could be saturated by cryoprotectants before their surgical removal. The objective was to examine the effectiveness of perfusion of ovine ovaries with vascular pediclein vivoandin vitro.Arteria ovaricawas cannuled and ovaries were perfused by Leibovitz L-15 medium + 100 IU/mL heparin + 5% bovine calf serum + 6% dimethyl sulfoxide + 6% ethylene glycol + 0.15 M sucrose + Indian inkin vivoandin vitro. In the first and second cycle of experiments, ovaries (n=13andn=23) were perfusedin vivoandin vitro, respectively, during 60 min with the rate of perfusion 50 mL/h (0.8 mL/min). It was established within vivoperfusion that only about 10% of ovarian tissues were perfused due to an appearance of multiple anastomoses when the perfusion medium goes fromarteria ovaricatoarteria uterinawithout inflow into the ovaries. It was concluded thatin vitroperfusion of ovine intact ovaries with vascular pedicle by freezing medium is more effective than this manipulation performedin vivo.