If a four day old human male were castrated...

[SacrosanctFiend]

...and then had an ovary surgically implanted at maturity, would it produce egg cells?

Edit: I should probably add that I'm serious. This experiment was performed on rats, guinea pigs, and monkeys successfully.

 

[Eli]

8ball says....

"No".

 

[UncleWai]

Get help.

 

[moshquerade]

please don't try it Dr. Frankenstein.

 

[Queasy]

There was a Law & Order: SVU episode along those lines. Minus the implantation of the ovaries bit....

 

[Deleted member 4644]

WTF are you talking about?

And, no.

 

[Kalvin00]

Originally posted by: UncleWai
Get help.

:thumbsup:

 

[uhohs]

 

[SacrosanctFiend]

Originally posted by: moshquerade
please don't try it Dr. Frankstein.

Seymour Levine did it with male rats in 1966. The ovaries produced eggs.

 

[SacrosanctFiend]

Originally posted by: UncleWai
Get help.

I'm way beyond the point of help.

 

[JMWarren]

When done in rats who's DNA did the eggs contain? The hosts or the original doner?

Mike

 

[Evadman]

I have to agree with everyone else, and say that you need help.

 

[SacrosanctFiend]

Originally posted by: JMWarren
When done in rats who's DNA did the eggs contain? The hosts or the original doner?

Mike

I'm not sure. The study was focused on sexual behavior, and I'm not sure if they obtained that information.

 

[compuwiz1]

Originally posted by: UncleWai
Get help.

Weird topic..... :roll:

 

[BigPoppa]

Were the eggs produces fertile?

 

[Mo0o]

As long as you remove the testosterone secreting glands

 

[HamburgerBoy]

WTF?!

 

[Sqube]

This is the kind of thing where empirical evidence is the only way to prove what would happen conclusively.

You let me know how that works out for you. I suggest moving to a third-world country and/or a country where life is cheap and infants plentiful.

 

[Sluggo]

Since your testicles started life as ovaries, maybe a Tiny Testicle Time Machine (TTTM) would be less painful, and yield the same result.