Amin, Ahmed Abdelsamad Zaki: NRF2 mediated oxidative stress response activity during early in vitro bovine embryo development. - Bonn, 2015. - Dissertation, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn.
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@phdthesis{handle:20.500.11811/6234,
urn: https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hbz:5n-39708,
author = {{Ahmed Abdelsamad Zaki Amin}},
title = {NRF2 mediated oxidative stress response activity during early in vitro bovine embryo development},
school = {Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn},
year = 2015,
month = mar,

volume = 176,
note = {Overcoming oxidative stress is one of the various embryo challenges to survive under suboptimal conditions during in vitro production of bovine embryos. Thus, the present study aimed to examine the ability of preimplantation bovine embryos to activate nuclear factor erythroid-derived 2-like 2 (NFE2L2 or NRF2)-mediated oxidative stress response and trigger their survival under oxidative stress conditions. An in vitro model was used to culture embryos under low (5%) oxygen tension as in bovine oviduct or high oxygen tension (20%), which is widely used in vitro culture of embryos. Early stage embryos including 2-, 4-, 8-, 16-cell and blastocyst stage embryos were generated under low (5%) or high (20%) oxygen level culture conditions. NRF2, NRF2 cytoplasmic inhibitor (KEAP1) and selected NRF2 target antioxidant genes expression were measured in each stage using quantitative real time PCR (qPCR). Reactive oxygen species (ROS) were evaluated in the blastocysts using green fluorescent probe. Our results revealed that the ROS level was high under 20 % compared to 5 % oxygen level in blastocysts. The transcription level of NRF2 and its downstream antioxidant genes was dramatically increased in 8-, 16-cell and blastocyst stage embryos under high compared to low oxygen level, while NRF2 inhibitor showed opposite expression pattern. In order to know whether NRF2 activity is associated with the embryo developmental competence, consequently NRF2 activity was compared in developmentally competent versus incompetent embryos. For this, the mRNA and protein expressions of NRF2 and the transcription level of its downstream antioxidant genes were compared in early (competent) vs. late (incompetent) cleaving 2-cell and blastocyst stage embryos. In the early developing blastocysts accompanied by low ROS level, NRF2 and its antioxidant target genes expression were increased. Likewise, protein expression pattern was observed in similar manner with more active nuclear NRF2. In conclusion, this study demonstrated that under oxidative stress conditions, pre-implantation bovine embryos are able to activate the NRF2-mediated oxidative stress response pathway, which is found to be correlated with their survival under in vitro condition.},
url = {https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11811/6234}
}

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