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MOLECULAR HUMAN REPRODUCTION
卷 7, 期 2, 页码 147-154出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/molehr/7.2.147
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HPRT; human preimplantation embryo; oocyte; quantification; RT-PCR
We have developed a competitive reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) sensitive enough to detect and quantify as little as 2-fold differences in gene expression in individual oocytes and embryos throughout human preimplantation development, This RT-PCR assay can be tailored for the examination of any specific gene and so will give a unique insight into human preimplantation development. This technique was used to quantify the level of hypoxanthine phosphoribosyl transferase (HPRT) expression during preimplantation development and to correlate this with embryo sex. The amount of HPRT transcripts present in the unfertilized oocyte was equivalent to 7.7 fg of competitor cDNA. At the 4-cell stage there is a significant drop (P = 0.0006) to similar to1.2 fg. There was no detectable difference in the HPRT levels between female and male embryos following 2 days of in-vitro culture, In contrast HPRT gene expression was higher in day 3 female embryos than in males. This is the first study to quantify gene transcripts throughout each stage of human preimplantation development and it indicates that the accumulated HPRT transcripts present in the unfertilized human oocyte undergo extensive destruction following fertilization. This work also suggests that X-inactivation occurs beyond the 8-cell stage of human preimplantation development.
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