Accumulation of cytoplasmic lipid droplets in bovine embryos and cryotolerance of embryos developed in different culture systems using serum‐free or serum‐containing media

Molecular Reproduction and Development - Tập 61 Số 1 - Trang 57-66 - 2002
Hiroyuki Abé1,2, Shoko Yamashita2, Takeshi Satoh2, Hiroyoshi Hoshi1,2
1Chairs of Biomechanism and Developmental Symbiosphere Science, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Yamagata University, Yamagata, Japan
2Research Institute for the Functional Peptides, Yamagata, Japan

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AbstractIn this study, the quantitative fluctuation of cytoplasmic lipid droplets (LD) and cryotolerance were investigated in bovine embryos derived from in vitro‐matured (IVM) and in vitro‐fertilized (IVF) oocytes developed in different culture systems using serum‐free or serum‐containing media. The serum‐free cultures were grown using IVMD101 medium in conjunction with bovine cumulus/granulosa cell (BCGC) cocultures or IVD101 medium without BCGC cocultures, and the serum‐containing cultures were grown in the presence of BCGC cocultures using HPM199 medium supplemented with 5% calf serum (HPM199 + CS). Large numbers of sudanophilic LD were present in the cytoplasm of bovine embryos from 2‐cell to hatched blastocyst stages, and the number and size differed between the embryos cultured in serum‐free and serum‐supplemented media. In the embryos cultured in HPM199 + CS, large (2–6 μm in diameter) sudanophilic LD increased significantly from the morula to the blastocyst stages. Throughout the embryonic development, the embryos developed in serum‐free cultures with and without BCGC cocultures had numerous sudanophilic LD, but most of these droplets were small (<2 μm in diameter) and large LD were less numerous than those embryos cultured in HPM199 + CS. Giant LD (>6 μm in diameter) were frequently observed in morulae and blastocysts (including early blastocysts) developed in HPM199 + CS. Electron microscopic observations demonstrated that large LD were abundant in the cytoplasm of trophoblast and embryonic (inner cell mass) cells of blastocysts cultured in HPM199 + CS. These large LD were identified as osmophilic LD, an indication that these lipid inclusions contained a significant proportion of unsaturated lipids. Many elongated mitochondria were found in embryos developed in IVMD101 and IVD101 at the morula and early blastocyst stages, whereas many of the mitochondria in the morulae developed in HPM199 + CS were of an immature form such as spherical or ovoid shape. The survival and hatching rates of embryos (morulae, early blastocysts, and blastocysts) produced in serum‐free media (both IVMD101 and IVD101) after post‐thaw culture were superior to those of embryos produced in serum‐containing medium. These results showed that bovine embryos cultured in serum‐containing medium abnormally accumulated cytoplasmic lipids into their cytoplasm and the excess accumulation of cytoplasmic LD in embryos may affect the cryotolerance of embryos. Mol. Reprod. Dev. 61: 57–66, 2002. © 2002 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.

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Molecular Reproduction and Development

Tập 61 Số 1

57-66

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