Previous our studies have shown that CD44, the principal receptor for hyaluronan, is present on cumulus cells during oocyte maturation. Although hyaluronan-CD44 interaction has been implicated in cumulus expansion and/or oocyte maturation, the full significance of CD44 remains unknown. The objective of the present study was to further investigate the role of CD44 in cumulus expansion and oocyte...

Objective Currently, there is no agreement on the optimal urinary derived human chorionic gonadotropin (u-hCG) dose requirement for initiating final oocyte maturation prior to oocyte collection in in vitro fertilization (IVF), but doses that range from 2500- 15000 IU have been used. We intended to determine whether low dose u-hCG was effective for oocyte maturation in IVF/intracytoplasmic sperm...

Background: The efficiency of in vitro maturation (IVM) has remained low despite extensive effort to understand the culture conditions. This study investigated the effect of cumulus cells and meiotic inhibitors on oocyte developmental competence in the presence of Alpha Lipoic acid (ALA) Materials and Methods: Mouse germinal vesicle oocytes were considered in cumulus-denuded oocytes (CDOs) and ...

the aim of this study was to determine the quality of cumulus-oocyte-complexes (cocs) and the effects of bovine serum albumin (bsa) supplementation on in vitro maturation and fertilization rate of buffalo oocytes. cocs were collected from slaughterhouse buffalo ovaries by aspiration method. only normal grades cocs were matured for 48 hours in tcm-199 media. two groups were created: one for the ...

Oocyte maturation depends on multiple variables. In fact, in dogs, the requirements for oocyte development in vitro are so complex that achievement of female gamete maturation has been viewed as a difficult problem. The conundrum, thus far unanswered, of achieving dog oocyte maturation in vitro, is nowadays the major puzzle of the in vitro program in the canine species. In in vitro studies of d...

Background: Heat shock may affect different aspects of oocyte maturation and its subsequent development to the blastocyst stage. A series of in vitro experiments was performed to determine whether physiologically heat shock (41°C) disrupts the progression of the ovine oocytes through meiosis, activation and blastocyst formation. Materials and Methods: The cumulus-oocyte complexes (COCs) were as...

After artificial insemination and multiple ovulation and embryo transfer (MOET), in vitro production of embryos (IVP) represents the third generation of techniques aimed at a better control of animal reproduction. This technique involves four major steps (Figure 1): oocyte collection, oocyte in vitro maturation (IVM), in vitro fertilization (IVF) and in vitro development of the resulting embryo...

INTRODUCTION In vitro maturation (IVM) of oocytes and subsequent, in vitro fertilization (IVF) for the generation of embryos in the laboratory has important values. Growth factors are a component of a complex system of autocrine and paracrine factors that have a regulatory role in ovarian function and affect oocyte maturation. Therefore, the aim of this study is to evaluate the effect of IGF-I ...

Background: In vitro maturation is a good method to decrease cancer risk of superovulation by gonadotropin hormones. A paracrine effect of oocyte secretions on oocyte developmental competence is under investigation. Apart from oocyte maturation, ovulation in vivo requires a precise control of extracellular matrix modification. Cumulus cells secrete hyaluronan to form a muco-elastic extracellula...

Cyclic nucleotides cAMP and cGMP are among the main molecules that control maturation of mammal oocytes. The in vitro simulated physiological oocyte (SPOM) method was used to model accumulation oocyte. In current study, we preincubated oocytes cows (not primed with FSH) modulators: N 6,2’-O-dibutyryladenosine 3’,5’-cyclomonophosphate (dbcAMP) 3-isobutyl-1-methylxanthine (IBMX). use SPOM increas...