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Effects of new synthetic cryoprotectant agents on histological characteristics of various classes of vitrified bovine pre-antral follicles

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

Mohammad Hamed Shahsavari 1
Gholamali Moghaddam 1
Hossein Daghigh Kia 1
Ana Paula Ribeiro Rodrigues 2

1 Department of Animal Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran

2 Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, LAMOFOPA, PPGCV, State University of Ceara, Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil

https://doi.org/10.30466/vrf.2019.34306
Abstract
Previous studies have reported many discrepancies about the best type and concentration of cryoprotective agents (CPAs) and biological variability among various pre-antral follicle classes after cryopreservation of ovarian tissue. The aim of this study was to investigate the impacts of some synthetic polymers on histological characteristics of different types of pre-antral follicles after bovine ovarian tissue vitrification. From each bovine ovarian pair, fragments were recovered and immediately fixed for analysis (fresh control group) or submitted to vitrification (sucrose, X-1000, Z-1000 and polyvinylpyrrolidone groups), either followed by in vitro culture for 1 or 5 days. In this case, although, the addition of X-1000 resulted in greater percentages of normal follicles for almost all pre-antral follicle classes compared to those of other groups, there are some exceptions. These results indicate that the inclusion of polyvinylpyrrolidone in the freezing media can improve the morphology of the post-warmed transitional follicles and cultured primordial follicles on day five more than other CPAs. According to the results of this study, it can be concluded that although ovarian tissue cryopreservation is often performed to preserve the primordial follicles, by choosing the best combination of permeating and non-permeating CPAs (synthetic polymers), more advanced stages of bovine pre-antral follicles, transitional, primary and secondary follicles, may also survive the cryopreservation process.

Keywords

Cryopreservation
Freezing media
Morphology
Preantral follicle

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Veterinary Research Forum
Volume 10, Issue 1
Winter 2019
Pages 9-16

  • Receive Date 12 February 2019

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