Male animal sterilization: history, current practices, and potential methods for replacing castration.

ABSTRACT: Sterilization and castration have been synonyms for thousands of years. Making an animal sterile meant to render them incapable of producing offspring. Castration or the physical removal of the testes was discovered to be the most simple but reliable method for managing reproduction and sexual behavior in the male. Today, there continues to be global utilization of castration in domestic animals. More than six hundred million pigs are castrated every year, and surgical removal of testes in dogs and cats is a routine practice in veterinary medicine. However, modern biological research has extended the meaning of sterilization to include methods that spare testis removal and involve a variety of options, from chemical castration and immunocastration to various methods of vasectomy. This revi

SUBMITTER: Hess RA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11255590 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature