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KMID : 1023620060300020125
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Reproductive and Developmental Biology
2006 Volume.30 No. 2 p.125 ~ p.133
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Comparisons of Developmental Potential and Gene Expression Level in Porcine Nuclear Transfer, Parthenogenetic and Fertilized Embryos
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Kim Jung-Gon
Kumar B. Mohana
Cho Sung-Keun
Oak Sun-A
Jeon Byeong-Gyun
Balasubramanian S.
Rho Gyu-Jin
Choe Sang-Yong
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Abstract
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This study was conducted to detect the apoptosis incidence in blastocysts and to compare the abundance of Bax, Bcl2L1, VEGF and FGFR2 in in vitro fertilized (IVF), parthenogenetic (PAT) and nuclear transfer (NT) embryos. Oocytes matured for 40 hr were enucleated and reconstructed with confluenced fetal fibroblasts (FFs) derived from a day fetus. Reconstructed eggs were then fused with 2 DC pulses (2.0 kV/cm, ) and cultured with cytochalasin B for 3 hr. Parthenotes (PAT) were produced with the same electric strength and culture for NT eggs. The embryos were cultured in NCSU-23 medium at in air. In 3 runs, set of 10 embryos at the 4-cell to blastocyst stages were used to extract total RNA for analyzing the gene expression patterns of pro-apoptotic (Bax), anti-apoptotic (Bcl2L1), vasculogenesis (VEGF), implantation (FGFR2III) using real-time quantitative PCR. Cleavage and blastocyst rates were significantly higher (P<0.05) in IVF and PAT (, respectively)than NT counterparts (, respectively). Significantly higher (P<0.05) total cells were observed in IVF controls and PAT () than NT embryos (). Apoptosis index was significantly lower (P<0.05) in IVF than NT embryos. The Relative abundances (RA) of Bax and VEGF were significantly higher (P<0.05) at blastocyst stage in NT than IVF control. The RA of Bcl2L1 and FGFR2III were significantly higher (P<0.05) at blastocyst stage in IVF than NT. The present study observed the abnormal gene expressions in NT embryos at various developmental stages, suggesting certain clues to find out the cause of the low efficiency of NT to term.
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KEYWORD
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Porcine, Apoptosis, Nuclear transfer, Gene expression
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