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a Infertility Center, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and
b Department of Gynecologic Oncology, Ghent University Hospital, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium
Cryopreservation of ovarian cortical tissue and subsequent transplantation or in vitro culture of follicles are technologies under development with the aim to safeguard fertility in patients with gonadal failure. In the present study, we investigated whether primordial follicles could be triggered to full maturation by a combination of in vivo transplantation and in vitro culture in a mouse model. In a first step, newborn mouse ovaries containing only primordial follicles were allotransplanted under the renal capsule of ovariectomized recipient mice. The second step was to mechanically isolate growing preantral follicles from the graft and culture these in vitro to maturity. In our experiment, one newborn mouse ovary was transplanted under the renal capsule of each 8- to 12-wk-old F1 (C57Bl/6j x CBA/Ca) female ovariectomized recipient (n = 26). Two weeks after transplantation, all 26 grafts were recovered. Four grafts were processed for histology and showed that developmental stages of follicles in 14-day-old ovarian grafts were comparable to those in 14-day-old mouse ovaries. The 22 remaining grafts were used for mechanical isolation of preantral follicles. As a control group, preantral follicles isolated from ovaries of 14-day-old mice were used. The mean preantral follicle yield per ovary was 11 in the transplant group versus 33 in the control group. Follicles were cultured individually in 20-µl droplets of 
-MEM supplemented with 100 mIU rFSH and 5% fetal bovine serum for 12 days under an atmosphere of 5% CO2 in air at 37°C. By Day 12 of culture, 66.5% of follicles retained their oocytes in the grafting group versus 97.5% in the control group (P < 0.001). Final oocyte maturation was induced by addition of 2.5 IU/ml hCG. At 14–16 h post-HCG, the percentages of oocytes showing germinal vesicle breakdown and polar body extrusion were significantly higher in the control group (90.6% and 82.8%) compared to the grafting group (60% and 45%). The mean diameter of the mature oocytes of the grafting group (69.9 ± 4.45 µm) was similar to that of oocytes from the control group (70.5 ± 2.35 µm). Our results suggest that maturation of mouse primordial follicles is feasible by combination of in vivo transplantation and in vitro culture. This two-step strategy may be an attractive model for promoting the growth and maturation of primordial follicles from other species.
1 Supported by a research grant from the Bijzonder Onderzoeksfonds of the Ghent University, Belgium (grant No.: BOF 01112199).
2 Correspondence: Jun Liu, Infertility Center, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Ghent University Hospital, De Pintelaan 185, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium. FAX: 32 9 240 4972; jun.liu{at}rug.ac.be
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