Background: Sex steriods play important roles in the growth and differentiation of reproduction tissues and in maintatinance of pregnancy. 17-β oestradiol (E2) is the most important one of them that has a positive effect an the granulosa cells proliferation and ovarian follicle maturation. Then the aim of this study was determine of the effectes of rFSH+ E2 combination as an ovarian stimulator ...

Single cell technology has been widely used in developmental and stem cell biology. In mouse, single cell transcriptome has revealed the cell lineage specification in pre-implantation and post-implantation stage embryo. Now Mohammed et al. investigated the dynamic cell fate commitment during the transition from peri-implantation to early post-implantation stage with single cell RNA sequencing. ...

The inclusion of specific amino acids in conventional culture media has been shown to enhance mammalian embryo development in vitro. Amino acids have been shown to confer their benefits to the preimplantation embryo in a number of different ways. However, their ability to buffer intracellular pH (pHi) has not been investigated. Thus, the aim of this study was to determine if amino acids regulat...

Paternal obesity is now clearly associated with or causal of impaired embryo and fetal development and reduced pregnancy rates in humans and rodents. This appears to be a result of reduced blastocyst potential. Whether these adverse embryo and fetal outcomes can be ameliorated by interventions to reduce paternal obesity has not been established. Here, male mice fed a high fat diet (HFD) to indu...

In the course of an analysis of cell-cell adhesion in the Xenopus embryo, antibodies directed against alpha- and beta-catenin were applied to investigate their relation to the cadherins occurring early in this system. The results demonstrate that alpha- and beta-catenin are provided maternally and increase in amount throughout embryogenesis. Immunoprecipitations indicate that both of the cateni...

Embryo manipulation is a fundamental task in assisted reproductive technology (ART). Nevertheless, conventional pick-place techniques often require proper alignment to avoid causing damage the embryo and further, tools have limited capability orient being handled. Objective: This paper presents novel non-invasive technique that can easily manipulate mouse embryos on polyvinyl chloride (PVC) Pet...

the aim of this study was to isolate mouse embryonic stem cells from late blastocyst stage embryos and to use them as a model system for the study of hematopoietic induction outside the embryo by coculturing of embryonic stem cells with bone marrow stromal cells. blastocyst stage embryos from pregnant nmri mice were obtained and cultured for 1-2 days in dmem medium. the inner cell masses formed...