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Rescue of oocytes recovered from postmortem mouse ovaries

Journal

EXPERIMENTAL ANIMALS
Volume 72, Issue 1, Pages 30-37

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INT PRESS EDITING CENTRE INC
DOI: 10.1538/expanim.22-0043

Keywords

germinal vesicle (GV) oocyte; GV transfer; in vitro maturation (IVM); nuclear transfer

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In this study, the researchers investigated whether cytoplasmic replacement could rescue the survivability of germinal vesicle stage oocytes in postmortem mouse carcasses. The results showed that the levels of reactive oxygen species and mitochondria numbers in the oocytes were significantly impaired after 44 hours postmortem. However, when cytoplasm from the oocytes was transferred to recipient oocytes, the in vitro maturation, spindle morphology, and developmental ability of the reconstituted oocytes were improved.
It is well known that the survivability of gametes of postmortem carcass was decreased as time passes after death. In this study, it was examined whether cytoplasmic replacement rescues the survivability of germinal vesicle stage (GV) oocytes of postmortem carcass in the mouse. Reactive oxygen species (ROS) levels and mitochondria numbers in GV oocytes of the dead mice stored at 4 degrees were significantly impaired after 44 h postmortem compared to the control (0 h). However, when kayoplasts of GV oocytes of postmortem carcass was transferred to recipient ooplasts (GV transfer), proportion of in vitro maturation (IVM), normal spindle morphology, in vitro and in vivo developmental ability after in vitro fertilization (IVF) of reconstituted oocytes was improved. Moreover, secondary follicle oocytes of postmortem carcass were developed, matured and fertilized in vitro and developed to go to term, when GV transfer was conducted at the GV phase. Thus, transfer of GV karyoplast recovered from postmortem carcass, which viability was decreased, into fresh GV recipient ooplasm, rescues survivability of reconstituted oocytes. It suggested the effective use of oocytes of dead animals in the mouse and this achievement must apply to other rare animal species, especially animals under control by human.

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