Efeito da fonte protéicas durante o cultivo na qualidade e quantidade de embriões bovinos produzidos in vitro

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2008

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The embryo IVP success is related to the knowledge of main requirements from gametes and embryos in different stages of development. It is well known that IVP embryos are quite different of those counterparts in vivo in many aspects. Dissimilarity between both has been studied in tempting to turn artificially mediums mostly similar to embryo natural environment. For that, viability of these embryos (in vivo or in vitro, from diverses systems of production) may be measured by a variety of tools, such as cryotolerance, metabolism analysis, genes levels and expression. Protein medium supplementation in cultive has been largely discussed as well, aiming the substitution for defined components, where there is comprehension of its composition, eliminating or adding benefic products to the embryo in this way, without existing unknown factors in it characteristics usually attributed to serum components, whose most used are Bovine Calf Serum (FCS) and Bovine Serum Albumin (BSA). In this study, the effects of FCS being substituted total or partially by BSA-faf during bovine embryos IVP, were investigated to quantity (blastocysts rate) and quality, when submitted to vitrification and gene expression analysis. Two thousand one hundred seventy one (2.171) oocytes obtained from abattoir ovary were matured, fertilized and cultured in vitro. In each replicate, CCOs were distributed in three treatments: (T1: supplementation with FCS on IVM and IVC; T2: supplementation with BSA on IVM and IVC; T3: supplementation with BSA on IVM and at the beginning of IVC and FCS, at the end of IVC). For cleavage rates (D2), there were no difference among treatments; therefore for blastocysts rates, T1 was superior to T2 and T3 on days 6.5 to 8.5 of development evaluation (P<0.001). Embryos from all treatments which have reached BL and/or BX stage (507 embryos, in total) were separated and, 50% of them, vitrified by OPS method, post-thawed, returning then to IVC, and observed at 24, 48 and 72 hours post-vitrification; other 50% remaining embryos were preserved as control group. For these analysis, were considered structures re-expansion and hatching rates as a parameter to evaluate factors as treatment (T1 vs. T2 and T3), groups (C vs. V), embryo development stage (BL vs. BX) and time (D6.5 vs. D7.5). At a glance, results for cryotolerance test related to these parameters were: T1=T2>T3; C>V; BX>BL; D6.5>D7.5. Four pools with 9 hatched blastocysts from Control group on D8.5, from each treatment, were formed to evaluate the expression of genes MnSOD, Bax, BCL-2, HSP-70, CIRP-b, ACAT-2 and ATP8A1. To standardize data, the constitutive genes, Actina and GAPDH, were taken. The majority genes expressions were not significantly different between T1 and T2, except for ACAT-2 who might be due to the medium protein source composition. The smaller and significant expression on T3, should indicate a suboptimal condition of this medium to embryo IVP. The supplementation with FCS produced more embryos with similar quality to those originated from BSA-faf supplementation. It is possible therefore, to conclude that serum components do not affected the parameters analyzed here, in this working environment. Possible effects in late embryo and fetal development, as well as variation among serum batches, should be verified in other experiments.

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ciencias agrarias bcs bsa bovine embryo quality embrião bovino sfb criotolerância bsa cryotolerance embryo qualidade embrionária

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