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REPRODUCTION
卷 138, 期 4, 页码 619-627出版社
BIOSCIENTIFICA LTD
DOI: 10.1530/REP-09-0112
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- Canadian Institutes of Health Research
Regulation of intracellular pH (pH(i)) is a fundamental homeostatic process essential for the survival and proliferation of virtually all cell types. The mammalian preimplantation embryo, for example, possesses Na(+)/H(+) and HCO(3)(-)/Cl(-) exchangers that robustly regulate against acidosis and alkalosis respectively. inhibition of these transporters prevents pH corrections and, perhaps unsurprisingly, leads to impaired embryogenesis. However, recent studies have revealed that the role and regulation of pHi is somewhat more complex in the case of the developing and maturing oocyte. Small meiotically incompetent growing oocytes are apparently incapable of regulating their own pHi, and instead rely upon the surrounding granulosa cells to correct ooplasmic pH, until such a time that the oocyte has developed the capacity to regulate its own pHi. Later, during meiotic maturation, pH(i)-regulating activities that were developed during growth are inactivated, apparently under the control of MAPK signalling, until the oocyte is successfully fertilized. Here, we will discuss pH homeostasis in early mammalian development, focussing on recent developments highlighting the unusual and unexpected scenario of pH regulation during oocyte growth and maturation. Reproduction (2009) 138 619-627
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