Table 1.
Proportion of follicles in various developmental stages and mean percentages (± SEM) of intact follicles per developmental stage within fresh and frozen/thawed tissues
| Total follicles | Follicle distribution | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Res ting follicles | Primary follicles | Secondary follicles | Preantral follicles | Atretic follicles | |||||||
| Total | Intact | Total | Intact | Total | Intact | Total | Intact | Total | Intact | Total | |
| Fresh tissue | 978 | 95.6 ± 1.3 % | 73.9 % (723/978) | 97.6 ± 0.8 % | 20.4 % (200/978) | 93.1 ± 3.5 % | 4.6 % (45/978) | 96.9 ± 2.8 % | 0.6 % (6/978) | 100 ± 0.0 % | 0.4 % (4/978) |
| Thawed tis sue | 537 | 70.5 ± 5.2 %* | 71.3 % (383/537) | 70.9 ± 6.0 %* | 22.7 % (122/537) | 80.4 ± 6.3 % | 4.3 % (23/537) | 48.7 ± 14.6 % | 0 % | – | 1.5 % (8/537) |
*p < 0.05 versus fresh tissue