Abstract
Abstract
Background
The developmental competence of oocyte derived from in vitro maturation (IVM) is significantly lower than those of oocyte matured in vivo. Rapamycin is an immunosuppressive substance and widely used to prolong the survival and preserve the cells culture. The objective of this research was to explore whether rapamycin supplementation during IVM enhances meiotic maturation, oocyte quality, and subsequent embryonic development.
Methods
Depending on the purpose, bovine cumulus oocyte complexes were matured without (control) or with rapamycin at different concentrations (0, 1, 10, and 100 nM) for 22 h (h) followed by 6 h in vitro fertilization, and zygotes were cultured for 8 days. Following treatment, oocytes developmental competence was assessed by meiotic progression, intra-oocyte GSH synthesis, reactive oxygen species (ROS) levels, and subsequent embryonic development.
Results
The results showed that addition of 1 nM rapamycin to IVM medium significantly increased the nuclear maturation (90.1 ± 1.5 vs. 81.2 ± 2.5; P < 0.01) and subsequent embryonic development (47.6 ± 2.2 vs. 41.5 ± 1.9; P < 0.05) than that observed in the control group. Consequently, compared to the control group, the relative fluorescence’s intensity of ROS levels in oocyte significantly reduced by rapamycin treatment. More importantly, rapamycin supplementation during maturation significantly increased the reduced glutathione synthesis levels in oocyte compared to that observed in control, indicating the bidirectional communication between cumulus cells and oocyte becomes easy via rapamycin treatment.
Conclusions
This study suggests that the presence of rapamycin during maturation can afford to enhance reduced glutathione synthesized by the oocyte, which is an internal oocyte antioxidant defense and contributes to improve subsequent high-quality embryo production.
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
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