Effect of the volume of medium and number of oocytes during in vitro fertilization on embryo development in pigs
2003
Gil, Maria Antonia | Abeydeera, Lalantha R. | Day, B. N. | Vázquez, Juan M. | Roca, Jordi | Martinez, Emilio A.
The present study was designed to determine the effect of the volume of medium (VM) and the number of oocytes (NOOC) during in vitro fertilization (IVF) on embryo development in pigs. Groups of 15, 30 and 50 in vitro matured oocytes were transferred to 2, 1 and 0.1ml of modified Tris-buffered medium (mTBM) and inseminated with frozen-thawed spermatozoa (2000 spermatozoa/oocyte) in a 3×3 factorial experiment. A total of 2739 oocytes from four replicates were exposed to spermatozoa for 6h and then cultured in embryo culture medium for 6h (pronuclear formation) or 7 days (blastocyst formation: BF). The efficiency of fertilization (EF: number of monospermic oocytes/total number of inseminated oocytes) and BF decreased (P<0.03) as the VM increased (EF: 45.9+/-2.2, 43.8+/-2.6 and 36.9+/-1.6% and BF: 29.4+/-2.7, 23.2+/-1.8 and 19.9+/-2.1% for VM 0.1, 1 and 2ml, respectively). The BF, but not EF, was also affected (P<0.04) by NOOC (19.8+/-1.6, 28.1+/-2.3 and 24.6+/-2.9% for groups of 15, 30 and 50 oocytes, respectively). The effect of the interaction VM×NOOC on EF and BF was not significant. These results indicate that when 2000 spermatozoa/oocyte were used, a low volume of IVF medium (0.1ml) and the number of oocytes during IVF (30-50) can improve the in vitro embryo production in pigs.
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