近期出版的英国《自然-通讯》中,报道了日本科学家首次使用超低温保存的睾丸组织,培育出了活的小鼠后代。这项成果表明,超低温保存睾丸组织可能是一种现实的、保存生育能力的重要措施。据该论文描述,不孕不育可以是某些癌症治疗的不良反应之一。而随着儿童癌症治愈率的增加,保存生育能力已经成为病人及其家属很关心的一个问题。由于精液冷冻保存仅适用于青春期发育后的病人,更加年轻的患者需要其他的替代措施。 Recently published in the British “Nature - Communications”, reported that the first Japanese scientists to use cryopreserved testicular tissue, to develop a live mouse offspring. This result shows that cryopreservation of testicular tissue may be a realistic and important measure to preserve fertility. According to the paper, infertility can be one of the adverse effects of certain cancer treatments. With the increase of children’s cancer cure rate, the preservation of fertility has become a problem that patients and their families are very concerned about. As semen cryopreservation is only applicable to post-pubertal patients, younger patients require other alternatives.