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Huntress SL, Loskutoff NM, Raphael BL, et al. Pronucleus formation following in vitro fertilization of oocytes recovered from a gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) with unilateral endometrioid adenocarcinoma of the ovary. Am J Primatol. 1989;18(3):259-266doi: 10.1002/ajp.1350180310.
Huntress, S. L., Loskutoff, N. M., Raphael, B. L., Yee, B., Bowsher, T. R., Putman, J. M., & Kraemer, D. C. (1989). Pronucleus formation following in vitro fertilization of oocytes recovered from a gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) with unilateral endometrioid adenocarcinoma of the ovary. American journal of primatology, 18(3), 259-266. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajp.1350180310
Huntress, S L, et al. "Pronucleus formation following in vitro fertilization of oocytes recovered from a gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) with unilateral endometrioid adenocarcinoma of the ovary." American journal of primatology vol. 18,3 (1989): 259-266. doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/ajp.1350180310
Huntress SL, Loskutoff NM, Raphael BL, Yee B, Bowsher TR, Putman JM, Kraemer DC. Pronucleus formation following in vitro fertilization of oocytes recovered from a gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) with unilateral endometrioid adenocarcinoma of the ovary. Am J Primatol. 1989;18(3):259-266. doi: 10.1002/ajp.1350180310. PMID: 31964037.
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Am J Primatol. 1989;18(3):259-266. doi: 10.1002/ajp.1350180310.

Pronucleus formation following in vitro fertilization of oocytes recovered from a gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) with unilateral endometrioid adenocarcinoma of the ovary.

American journal of primatology

S L Huntress, N M Loskutoff, B L Raphael, B Yee, T R Bowsher, J M Putman, D C Kraemer

Affiliations

  1. Dallas Zoo, Dallas.
  2. Department of Veterinary Physiology and Pharmacology, Texas Agricultural Experiment Station, Texas A & M University, College Station, Orange.
  3. Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of California Irvine Medical Center, Orange.
  4. Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas.

PMID: 31964037 DOI: 10.1002/ajp.1350180310

Abstract

A 33-year-old, nonreproductive female gorilla was scheduled for ovariohysterectomy after diagnosing endometrioid adenocarcinoma of the right ovary; the contralateral ovary appeared small and inactive. Follicular recruitment and maturation were stimulated on the left ovary using human menopausal gonadotropin and human chorionic gonadotropin therapy. Three oocytes were recovered and inseminated using a thawed epididymal semen sample collected postmortem and cryopreserved. At 18 h postinsemination, one ovum was fertilized, the second showed evidence of polyspermia, and the third was unfertilized; no further embryonic development was observed. These results demonstrate that viable oocytes can be salvaged from a nonreproductive gorilla using a human exogenous gonadotropin treatment protocol and fertilized in vitro using cryopreserved/thawed epididymal gorilla semen.

Copyright © 1989 Wiley‐Liss, Inc., A Wiley Company.

Keywords: cryopreservation; epididymal semen; exogenous human gonadotropin treatment

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