The ovary is an organ in a Latin ovarium 'egg, nut' found on regarded and forwarded separately. side of the body. The ovaries also secrete hormones that play a role in the menstrual cycle & fertility. The ovary progresses through many stages beginning in the prenatal period through menopause. it is also an endocrine gland because of the various hormones that it secretes.
Cryopreservation of ovarian tissue, often called ovarian tissue cryopreservation, is of interest to women who want to preserve their reproductive function beyond the natural limit, or whose reproductive potential is threatened by cancer therapy, for example in hematologic malignancies or breast cancer. The procedure is to create a element of the ovary and carry out unhurried freezing previously storing it in liquid nitrogen whilst therapy is undertaken. Tissue can then be thawed and implanted nearly the fallopian, either orthotopic on the natural location or heterotopic on the abdominal wall, where it starts to do new eggs, allowing normal theory to take place. A explore of 60 procedures concluded that ovarian tissue harvesting appears to be safe. The ovarian tissue may also be transplanted into mice that are immunocompromised SCID mice to avoid graft rejection, and tissue can be harvested later when mature follicles have developed.
In former centuries, medical authors, for example Galen, referred to a woman's ovaries as "female testes".