Author:
Cui Xiang-Shun,Jeong Yu-Jeong,Lee Hwa-Young,Cheon Sun-Hong,Kim Nam-Hyung
Abstract
This study was conducted to determine the effects of polyvinyl alcohol (PVA), fetal bovine serum (FBS) and bovine serum albumin (BSA) on blastocoel formation, total cell number, apoptosis and Bcl-xL and Bak gene expression in porcine presumptive diploid parthenotes developingin vitro. The addition of 0.4% BSA to the culture medium enhanced the development of 2-cell or late 4-cell stage parthenotes to the blastocyst stage (P< 0.01) while FBS decreased the incidence of blastocoel formation. FBS also reduced the frequency of blastocysts developed from both 2-cell (P< 0.001) and late 4-cell (P< 0.05) embryos and increased the percentage of blastocysts undergoing apoptosis (P< 0.001). The relative abundance of Bcl-xL mRNA in presumptive diploid parthenotes in the control, PVA- and BSA-supplemented medium was similar to that ofin vivo-derived embryos, but was significantly higher than in parthenotes cultured with FBS supplement (P< 0.05). Bak mRNA significantly increased at the blastocyst stage in FBS-supplemented cells (P< 0.01). These results suggest that apoptosis-related gene expression is significantly affected by FBS, and that this may result in alteration of apoptosis and embryo viability of porcine embryos developingin vitro.
Subject
Cell Biology,Obstetrics and Gynecology,Endocrinology,Embryology,Reproductive Medicine
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