Serial Nuclear Transfer Improves the Developmental Potential of Mouse Embryos Cloned from Oocytes Matured in a Protein-free Medium.
From: Department of Cell Biology and Genetics, College of Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China.
Molecular reproduction and development
- Publish Date: May 2007
- ISSN: 1040-452X
- Volume: 74
- Issue: 5
- Pages: 560-7
- Medium: Print
- Language: English
- Citation (JAMA): Bai Zhaodai, Yong Jun, Qing Tingting, et al. Serial Nuclear Transfer Improves the Developmental Potential of Mouse Embryos Cloned from Oocytes Matured in a Protein-free Medium.. Mol. Reprod. Dev. May 2007;74:560-7
Abstract
Germinal vesicle (GV) oocytes matured in vitro are an alternative source for cytoplasmic recipients of nuclear transfer (NT). However, the developmental potential of oocytes matured in vitro is limited. In this study, we developed a protein-free maturation medium for mouse GV oocytes. Following parthenogenetic activation, the oocytes matured in the protein-free medium develop to blastocyst stage with a high efficiency, even up to the rate obtained from in vivo MII-oocytes (90.6% vs. 92.8%). Using the oocytes matured in the protein-free medium as the recipient, NT embryos develop to the blastocyst stage (17.6%). To further improve the developmental potential of NT embryos, we performed serial NT and compared the effect of three different activated cytoplasm samples derived from in vitro matured oocytes as the second recipient, that is, the effect of in vitro fertilized (IVF) zygote, the preactivated cytoplast and the IVF cytoplast, on the development of NT embryos. We found that when the pronucleus of NT zygote was transferred into the cytoplasm of the IVF zygote, the blastocyst formation increased to 39.4%. This is the first report to demonstrate the IVF zygote from oocytes matured in protein-free medium can be used successfully as the recipient for serial NT to enhance the developmental potential of mouse NT embryos from oocytes matured in the protein-free medium.
Mesh Headings (Keywords): Animals, Blastocyst, Cell Nucleus, Cells, Cultured, Cloning, Organism, Culture Media, Serum-Free, Cytoplasm, Embryo, Mammalian, Female, Humans, Mice, Nuclear Transfer Techniques, Oocytes, Parthenogenesis, Zygote
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