Held, Eva Elisabeth: Morphological reflectors and molecular predictors of preimplantation developmental competence in bovine oocytes and embryos. - Bonn, 2013. - Dissertation, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn.
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@phdthesis{handle:20.500.11811/5534,
urn: https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hbz:5n-31631,
author = {{Eva Elisabeth Held}},
title = {Morphological reflectors and molecular predictors of preimplantation developmental competence in bovine oocytes and embryos},
school = {Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn},
year = 2013,
month = mar,

note = {The efficiency of in vitro production (IVP) of bovine embryos still remains low, reaching blastocyst rates between 25 and 35 %. Accordingly, the necessity to define reliable predictors for developmental competence is indispensible. Up to now most morphological and molecular markers are subjective and partly invasive and thus relatively inaccurately. Therefore, the aim of the first experiment of the present approach was to evaluate the effect of structural changes in zona pellucidas’ (ZP) morphology during in maturation on developmental competence using polarized light microscopy. Structural changes in terms of number and size of pores were displayed by the Scanning electron microscopy and determined quantitatively in zona pellucida birefringence (ZPB). Immature oocytes classified as high presumble quality oocytes exhibited highest values for birefringence, and in vivo matured oocytes showed the lowest values for birefringence compared to their in vitro matured counterparts. These results implicate, that decreasing values for ZPB during maturation are typical for high developmental competence. In the second study of the present thesis, the transcriptome profile of one blastomere of a bovine 2-cell stage embryo was directly correlated with the developmental potential of the corresponding sister blastomere. Analyses using microarray technology revealed specific molecular fingerprints for blastomeres whose sister blastomere developed to the blastocyst stage in contrast to those blastomeres whose sister blastomeres stopped cleaving after separation or were blocked before embryonic genome activation (EGA). Pathway analyses uncovered, that differentially regulated genes (DEG) were mostly involved in oxidative phosphorilation, oxidative stress response and antioxidant activity. Five candidate genes, namely, NDUFS1, MAPK14, CAT, PRDX1 and PRDX6, which are known to act as either direct or indirect scavengers of reactive oxygen species (ROS), were selected and their expression levels were further characterized using two independent models for developmental competence. Furthermore, ROS staining revealed high ROS accumulations in late cleaved or rather developmentally incompetent 2-cell stage embryos, compared to low ROS levels in early cleaved and therefore presumable highly competent 2-cell stage embryos. Taken together, noninvasive morphological criteria predicting subsequent developmental competence of matured bovine oocytes were identified in this work. Moreover, a direct correlation between molecular mechanisms and the individual developmental competence, which was found to be already determined in the 2-cell stage, could be detected.},
url = {https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11811/5534}
}

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