TUNEL analyses of bovine blastocysts after culture with EGF and IGF‐I
- 20 March 2003
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Molecular Reproduction and Development
- Vol. 65 (1), 51-56
- https://doi.org/10.1002/mrd.10263
Abstract
Experiments were carried out to investigate the beneficial effects of IGF-I or EGF on bovine embryo development in chemically defined embryo culture media and resultant incidences of nuclear DNA fragmentation as an indication of embryo quality. Presumptive IVF zygotes were randomly cultured in either control (with no added growth factor) or treatment groups, i.e., with 50 ng/ml IGF-I (experiment 1) or 5 ng/ml EGF (experiment 2). IGF-I supplemented to culture media significantly improved proportions of blastocysts from oocytes inseminated compared to untreated controls (38.0% vs. 28.5%). Only embryos reaching the blastocyst stage on day 8 showed significant effects of IGF-I treatment by resulting in higher blastocyst cell numbers (162 vs. 141) and lower percentages of TUNEL positive nuclei (2.1% vs. 3.3%) when compared to controls. Blastocyst development from oocytes was also improved by EGF supplementation compared to untreated controls (38.5% vs. 30.7%). Cell numbers of either day 7 or day 8 blastocysts were not affected by EGF treatment, nor were percentages of TUNEL positive nuclei when compared with controls. Similar proportions of parthenogenetically activated oocytes developed to blastocysts as for inseminated oocytes (28.8%). Parthenogenetic blastocysts contained fewer cells (93) and an increased percentage of TUNEL positive nuclei (5.7%) than were found for IVF embryos. Mol. Reprod. Dev. 65: 51–56, 2003.Keywords
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