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KMID : 0364219880310020081
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Korean Journal of Zoology
1988 Volume.31 No. 2 p.81 ~ p.86
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Studies on the Metabolic Cooperativity between Ooccte and Cumulus Cells in Mammalian Oocyte Cumulus Complexes in vitro
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Ko Sun-Kun
Ra Chul-Ho
Kwon Hyuk-Bang
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Abstract
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The relationship between cumulus cell expansion, cocyte maturation and metabolic cooperativitiy was investigated by using mouse and pig cocyte-cumulus complexes in vitro. Cocyte germinal vesicle breakdown (GVBD) and cumulus expansion were manipulated with hormones or reagents which increase intracellular cAMP leveL Metabolic cooperativity between oocyte and cumulus cells was assessed by determination of the fraction of radiolabelled uridine marker that was transferred from the cumulus mass to the oocyte. Uptake of uddine marker by mouse and pig cumulus mass was increased by about fourfold of basal level with the stimulation of hormones (human choriononic gonadotrophin, HCG; follicle stimulating hormone, FSH) or cyclic AMP sttmulators (3-isobutyl-1-methylxanthine, IBMX; forskolin) during culture. However, the fraction of uridine that was transferred from the cumulus mass to the cocyte (transfer ratio) was gradually decreased during culture, irrespective with the presence of hormones or stimulators. The decrease of the transfer ratio was not correlated with the state of occyte whether they have GV or not, or with the degree of cumulus expansion. In mouse complexes, HCG induced more significant reducton of transfer ratio than other treatments. These results do not support the idea that modulations of metabolic cooperativity between cumulus cells and oocytes are important for the regulation of meiotic resumption in mammals.
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KEYWORD
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Metabolic cooperativity , Oocyte-cumulus comples
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