Early Development Bovine Zygotes Co-cultured with Cumulus Cells

우 체외수정란의 초기발생에 미치는 난구세포의 영향

  • Published : 1993.02.01

Abstract

Bovine follicular oocytes were matured, fertilized and cultured in vitro. Oocytes with or without cumulus cells were transferred into TC-I99 medium supplemented with 10% FCS 8 h after insemination, and embryos cleaved to 2- to 8-cell stage 56 h after insemination were cultured further for 5 days. The proportions of embryos developed to morular and blastocyst stages were significantly higher (P<0.0l) in those cultured with(31%) than without(15%) cumulus cells. When the embryos were cultured with cumulus cells in the medium with different protein sources, the highest proportion(59%) of embryos developed to morular or blastocyst stage was obtained in medium with BSA(P<0. O01). Higher proportions of embryos were degenerated during culture with FCS(15%) or CS(14%) compared with BSA(3%). The present results indicate the early development of in-vitro fertilized bovine embryos can be maintained efficiently by BSA when they were co-cultured with cumulus cells.

소의 난포난자를 체외에서 성숙시켜, 수정후 8시간에서 난구세포가 부착된 난자와 기계적으로 완전히 제거한 난자를 10% FCS가 첨가된 TCM-199배양액에 옮겨, 수정 56시간에서 2∼8세포기로 분할한 난자만을 5일간 계속 배양하여 초기배의 발육 상황을 검토하였다. 그 결과, 난구세포가 부착된 난자(31%)는 제거한 난자(15%)에 비해 상실배와 배반포기까지의 발달이 유의적으로 높았다(p<0.01). 한편, 난구세포와의 공동배양 조건하에서, 발생배지에 첨가하는 단백질원의 영향을 조사한 결과, BSA(59%)를 첨가한 경우 FCS(32%) 또는 CS(37%) 첨가보다 초기배의 발육율이 유의적으로 높았다(p<0.01). 이상의 결과로부터, 소의 수정란과 난구세포와의 공동배양시 BSA가 초기발생에 촉진적 효과가 있음이 시사되었다.

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