Effect of elevated Ca(2+) concentration in fusion/activation medium on the fusion and development of porcine fetal fibroblast nuclear transfer embryos.

Abstract:

:The present study examined the effect of elevated Ca(2+) concentration in fusion/activation medium on the fusion and development of fetal fibroblast nuclear transfer (NT) porcine embryos. Frozen-thawed and serum starved fetal fibroblasts were transferred into the perivitelline space of enucleated oocytes. Cell fusion and activation were induced simultaneously with electric pulses in 0.3 M mannitol-based medium containing 0.1 or 1.0 mM CaCl(2). Some fused embryos were further activated 1 hr after the fusion treatment by exposure to an electric pulse. The NT embryos were cultured in vitro for 6 days. Fusion and blastocyst formation rates were significantly (P<0.05) increased by increasing the Ca(2+) concentration from 0.1 mM (67.1 and 6.3%) to 1.0 mM (84.7 and 15.8%). However, no difference in the number of cells in blastocysts was observed between the two groups. A higher percentage of blastocyst was also observed when control oocytes were parthenogenetically activated in the presence of elevated Ca(2+) (19.3% vs. 32.4%, P<0.05). When the reconstituted oocytes were fused in the medium containing 1.0 mM CaCl(2), increasing the number of pulses from 2 to 3 or an additional activation treatment did not enhance the blastocyst formation rate or cell number in blastocysts. These results demonstrate that increasing the Ca(2+) concentration in the fusion/activation medium can enhance the fusion and blastocyst formation rates of fetal fibroblast NT porcine embryos without an additional activation treatment.

journal_name

Mol Reprod Dev

authors

Cheong HT,Park KW,Im GS,Lai L,Sun QY,Day BN,Prather RS

doi

10.1002/mrd.10110

keywords:

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2002-04-01 00:00:00

pages

488-92

issue

4

eissn

1040-452X

issn

1098-2795

pii

10.1002/mrd.10110

journal_volume

61

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