Apoptose em placenta proveniente de bovinos clonados / Apoptosis in bovine cloned placenta

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2006

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The study of placenta from somatic cell nuclear transfer pregnancy originated a new model of study after the commercial production of bovine nuclear transfer clones, this technique requires caesarean section, that allows collection of fetal membranes. Alterations as differences in the placentomes total number, size, villous trees, umbilical cord and new born alterations were already described in NT placenta. These nuclear transfer gestations frequently have placental retention and during rectal palpation two days after caesarean section, we observed placentomes with normal characteristics as before section, suggesting an absence of recending. This information about the receding absence lead us to hypothesize that placentomes produced from nuclear transfer pregnancies show lower frequency of apoptosis thus produced from natural. For testing this hypothesis we collected 15 fragments of placentomes from nuclear transfer fetus and 3 of natural mating. The RNA extraction was performed with Trizol (Invitrogen, Brazil) protocol and the reverse transcriptase by Impon II (Promega, Brazil), using 1µg of total RNA. We performed the real time relative quantification technique in the "7500 SDS System" (Applied Biosystems, USA) to investigate the mRNA expression of BAX, BCL2 as apoptosis genes and GAPDH as endogenous gene, with concentrations of 1X Power SYBR Green PCR Master Mix (Applied Biosystems, USA), 1µg of cDNA and 0.6µM of each primer (BAX, BCL2, and GAPDH) in 25µL of total reaction. The ITM2b and PI3K as apoptosis genes and GAPDH as endogenous gene with concentrations of 1x Taqman Universal Master Mix (Applied Biosystems, USA), 40ng of cDNA, 0.72µM of primers (ITM2B, PI3K and GAPDH) and 0.2µM of each probe. The "LinRegPCR" software (RAMAKERS et al., 2003) was used for individual efficiency calculation and the "REST2005" (PFAFFL et all, 2002) software for statistical analysis, using the standard efficiency. The results show that BAX gene is down regulated in the nuclear transfer group (P=0.04), while the BCL2, ITM2B and PI3K are equal in nuclear transfer and natural mating groups. The relation BAX/BCL2 was greater than 1 in 12 nuclear transfer samples 12/15 (80%). No significant difference was found when evaluated variables such as survival, calv sex, birth weight for all studied genes. The lower expression of BAX gene in nuclear transfer groups suggests that apoptosis is lower in this group and the relation BAX/BCL2 is indicative that a lower rate of apoptosis may be responsible for the lower rate of placentome receding.

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nuclear transfer apoptose apoptosis clonagem animal bcl-2 bovine placenta placenta bovinos bcl-2

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