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Volume 19(4): 282-289, 2015.


Effect of gonadotropin and frozen-thawed culture media on oocyte and zygote production

 

S-M Mirshamsi1, H Karami-Shabankareh1, J Habibizad2

 

1IVF & ET Laboratory, Department of Animal Science, Razi University, Kermanshah, Iran;2Department of Animal Science, Faculty of Agriculture, Yasouj University, Yasouj, Iran

 

ABSTRACT

 

Mirshamsi SM, Karami-Shabankareh H, Habibizad J., Effect of gonadotropin and frozen-thawed culture media on oocyte and zygote production, Onl J Vet Res.,  19(4): 282-289, 2015. Oocytes taken from non-breeding ovine ovaries were cultured in maturation medium supplemented with 0.02 IU/mL pituitary, 0.075 IU/mL recombinant and/or 10 IU/mL chorionic gonadotropins. In vitro matured oocytes were transferred into fresh medium as controls, frozen-thawed In vitro fertilization (FT-IVF) and frozen-thawed In vitro culture (FT-IVC) media. Zygotes from FT-IVF medium were cultured again in FT-IVC medium (FT-IVFC). There were no differences in blastocysts using pituitary (21.1%), recombinant (17.3%) or chorionic (20.5%) gonadotropins or fresh (42.0%), FT-IVF (44.3%), FT-IVC (42.8%) or FT-IVFC (48.2%) media. Results suggest that non-pituitary gonadotropins and frozen-thawed culture media could support embryonic development.

 

Key words: immature oocytes, maturation medium, zygotes, culture medium, brilliant cresyl blue.


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