Effect of chilling on porcine germinal vesicle stage oocytes at the subcellular level
Effect of chilling on porcine germinal vesicle stage oocytes at the subcellular level
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冷冻对猪生发囊期卵母细胞亚细胞水平的影响
DOI:
10.1016/j.cryobiol.2009.04.005
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发表时间:
2009-08-01
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影响因子:
2.7
通讯作者:
Liu Zhong-Hua
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作者:
Gerelchimeg, Bou;Liu Li-Qing;Liu Zhong-Hua
The potential subcellular consequence of chilling on porcine germinal vesicle (GV) stage oocytes was examined. Prior to in vitro maturation (IVM), Cumulus-oocyte complexes (COCs) freshly collected from antral follicles (3-6 mm in diameter) were evenly divided into four groups and immediately incubated in PVA-TL-HEPES medium at the temperature of 39 degrees C (control group), 23 degrees C (room temperature), 15 degrees C and 10 degrees C for 10 min, respectively. Following 42 h of IVM at 39 degrees C, the survival rates were examined. There was no significant difference between the survival rate of 23 degrees C chilled group and control group (77.92 and 91.89%), but the survival rate of 15 and 10 degrees C chilled group were significantly decreased (46.34 and 4.81%, P < 0.01). A further experiment on15 degrees C group showed that most oocytes died from 2 to 4 h of IVM. In order to investigate the effects of chilling on oocytes at the subcellular level, the control and 15 degrees C chilled group COCs fixed at different time points of the IVM cultures (2, 2.5, 3, 3.5 and 4 h of IVM) were prepared for transmission electron microscope (TEM) observation. As the result, compared with the control group, there were two significant changes in the ultrastructural morphology of 15 degrees C treatment group: (1) dramatic reduction of heterogeneous lipid, (2) disorganized mitochondria-endoplasmic reticulum-lipid vesicles (M-E-L) combination. These results indicate that 15 degrees C is a critical chilling temperature for porcine GV stage oocyte and the alteration of cellular chemical composition and the destruction of M-E-L combination maybe responsible for chilling injury of porcine oocyte at this stage. (C) 2009 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.