scholarly journals Preimplantation Embryo Development in Mastomys (Praomys coucha) In Vivo and In Vitro.

1997 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-71 ◽  
Author(s):  
Atsuo OGURA ◽  
Junichiro MATSUDA ◽  
Keiji MOCHIDA ◽  
Osamu SUZUKI ◽  
Kazuhiro TAKIMOTO ◽  
...  
2017 ◽  
Vol 21 (7) ◽  
pp. 810-815 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. V. Kozhevnikova ◽  
T. N. Igonina ◽  
E. Yu.  Brusentsev ◽  
V. I. Mokrousova ◽  
E. A.  Kizilova ◽  
...  

Reproduction ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 152 (4) ◽  
pp. 283-291 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christiana Kyvelidou ◽  
Dimitris Sotiriou ◽  
Tania Antonopoulou ◽  
Margarita Tsagkaraki ◽  
George J Tserevelakis ◽  
...  

l-Carnitine (l-Cn), despite the beneficial role as energy-generating substance delivering long-chain fatty acids to the β-oxidation pathway in mitochondria, has been accused to cause an endometriosis-like state to BALB/c mice manifested by increased inflammatory cytokines in serum and peritoneal fluid, accumulation of immune cells in the peritoneal cavity and uterine walls and most importantly, correlating to infertility. Exploring this type of infertility, the effect of l-Cn on preimplantation embryo development, ovarian integrity and systemic maternal immunity was studied. Using nonlinear microscopy analysis, which was shown to be a powerful tool for determining embryo quality by quantitatively estimating the lipid body (LB) content of the cells, it was shown that in vitro and in vivo administration of l-Cn significantly decreased LB mean area in zygotes. Daily intraperitoneal administration of 2.5mg l-Cn for 3, 4 and 7days to mice significantly decreased the percent of normal zygotes. However, only the 7-day treatment persisted by affecting 2- and 8-cell stage embryos, while almost abolishing blastocyst development. Such effects were accompanied by abnormal ovarian histology, showing increased numbers of corpora luteus and elevated progesterone concentration in the serum. In addition, it was shown that the 7-day l-Cn treatment pushed maternal systemic immunity toward inflammation and immunosuppression by increasing CD11b-, CD25- and CD11bGr1-positive cells in spleen, which opposed the necessity for immunostimulation at these early stages of pregnancy. In conclusion, the results presented here demonstrated that elevated doses of l-Cn affect early stages of embryo development, leading to infertility.


2004 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 237
Author(s):  
T. Fair ◽  
A. Gutierrez-Adan ◽  
M. Murphy ◽  
D. Rizos ◽  
F. Martin ◽  
...  

The aim of the current study was to identify the bovine homolog of the murine Ped (preimplantation embryo development) gene, which regulates mouse preimplantation embryonic growth, including cleavage rate and embryo survivability, and to characterize the expression pattern of this gene during bovine preimplantation embryo development. Experiment (I): The National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) GenBank/EBI EST databases were searched for bovine-expressed sequence tags (EST) that were homologous with the murine Ped gene (Accession number: NM_010394). The resulting ESTs were aligned and assembled in to one complete sequence (841bp), which was shown to be homologous with the Murine Ped gene and the Bovine Major Histocompatibility Complex class I 4221.1 gene (Accession No.: AJ010865, length 1090bp). The expression of the protein product of the Ped gene by bovine tissue was confirmed using Western Blot analysis. Experiment (II): The expression pattern of the Ped gene homolog during in vivo and in vitro bovine preimplantation embryo development was characterized using real time PCR. Embryos at the same stage for age were compared (Day 1: 2-cell; Day 2: 4-cell; Day 3: 8-cell; Day 4: 16-cell; Day 5: early morula;; Day 6, compact/late morula;; Day 7: blastocyst). The relative transcript abundance was consistently lower in the in vitro-cultured embryos at all stages of preimplantation development the differences were significant on Days 2, 4, 5, 6, and 7. The relative transcript abundance was significantly lower on Days 1, 2, and 3 of in vivo culture than on Days 4, 5, 6, and 7 and was significantly higher in Day 7 blastocysts than in Day 5 early morula. In in vitro-cultured embryos the relative transcript abundance was significantly higher in Day 7 blastocysts compared to all other stages of the preimplantation period. Experiment (III): A quantitative analysis of the Ped gene homolog was carried out on replicates of pools of ten 2-cell embryos collected at 25, 28, 32, and >36hpi from three different fertilizations. Transcript relative abundance was highest in those embryos that had cleaved by 25hpi. By 28hpi abundance had decreased slightly;; as time to cleavage increased further to 32 and >36hpi, the relative abundance decreased significantly. In conclusion, we have successfully identified a potential bovine homolog of the murine Ped gene. Furthermore, we have characterized the expression pattern of this gene during preimplantation embryo development in cattle and we have shown that a greater relative abundance of the gene transcript is associated with embryos of higher quality and greater developmental potential.


2021 ◽  
Vol 350 ◽  
pp. S169-S170
Author(s):  
I. Hallberg ◽  
M. Moberg ◽  
M. Olovsson ◽  
P. Damdimopoulou ◽  
J. Rüegg ◽  
...  

1994 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 172-175 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter C. Svalander ◽  
Matts Olovsson ◽  
Paul V. Holmes

2005 ◽  
Vol 229 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 141-147 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jesse A. Craig ◽  
Hai Zhu ◽  
Paul W. Dyce ◽  
Lihua Wen ◽  
Julang Li

Reproduction ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 137 (4) ◽  
pp. 619-624 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Wilding ◽  
Gianfranco Coppola ◽  
Brian Dale ◽  
Loredana Di Matteo

Human reproduction, like all biological systems, is characterised by a large level of variability. In this field, the variability is observed as a large difference in implantation potential of human embryos developing in vitro, despite similarities in observable parameters such as rate of development and morphology of these embryos. One of the underlying factors that determines developmental potential in these embryos is the availability of energy in the form of ATP for development. Here, we suggest that, despite the evidence suggesting that mitochondrial metabolism is relatively inactive during preimplantation embryo development, aerobic (mitochondrial) metabolism contributes a major role in the supply of ATP. A second pathway, anaerobic respiration, is also active and the two pathways work in synchrony to supply all the ATP necessary. We discuss the differences in the two forms of energy production and suggest that, although anaerobic respiration can supplement deficiencies in the energy supply in the short term, this is not sufficient to substitute for aerobic respiration over long periods. Therefore, we suggest that deficiencies in the levels of aerobic respiration can explain variability in the implantation potential of apparently equivalent embryos.


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