Ultrastructural and Autoradiographic study of Preimplantation rabbit embryos grown in conventional or uterine flushing-supplemented culture media |
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Authors: | Bernd Fischer Manfred Lambertz Christa Hegele-Hartung |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Anatomy and Reproductive Biology, RWTH Aachen, Klinikum Pauwelsstrasse, D-5100 Aachen, Germany;(2) Department of Anatomy & Reproductive Biology, Medical Faculty, RWTH Aachen, D-5100 Aachen, Germany |
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Abstract: | Rabbit morulae and blastocysts were cultured in conventional culture media Ham’s F10 or BSM II supplemented with bovine serum
albumin (BSA) or serum] or in Ham’s medium supplemented with synchronous or asynchronous uterine flushings, mostly for 2 days,
and afterwards investigated by light and electron microscopy and by autoradiography. Ultrastructure and cell proliferation
differed considerably between cultured embryos and noncultured controls. Cultured embryos displayed more dead cells. They
were developmentally retarded (predominance of smooth endoplasmic reticulum rather than the age-specific rough endoplasmic
reticulum, mitochondria still round to ovoid shaped) and showed nonspecific signs of cells damage (swollen mitochondria and
Golgi complex vesicles, increased number of lysosomes). All these features were also present in embryos grown in uterine flushing-supplemented
media, but were less pronounced. Cell damage and impaired cell proliferation had affected trophoblast cells more than embryoblast
cells. Endoderm could be differentiated only if culture had been started with blastocysts—not with morulae—and seems to require
uterine secretions. No significant ultrastructural differences were observed between embryos cultured in synchronous or in
asynchronous uterine flushings. Present results indicate that cultured preimplantation rabbit embryos deviate clearly from
those grown in vivo and maintain, for some time, a better cellular structure—and probably function —in the presence of uterine
flushings than in conventional culture media. Specific abnormal morphologic features related to a particular medium could
not be identified. |
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Keywords: | autoradiography preimplantation embryo development in-vitro culture ultrastructure uterine flushings |
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