Cysteamine supplementation of in vitro maturation medium, in vitro culture medium or both media promotes in vitro development of buffalo (Bubalus bubalis) embryos
2008
Anand, T. | Kumar, D. | Chauhan, M.S. | Manik, R.S. | Palta, P.
The effects of supplementation of in vitro maturation (IVM) or in vitro culture (IVC) or both IVM and IVC media with cysteamine on the yield, hatching rate (HR) and total cell number (TCN) of buffalo blastocysts were examined. Oocytes obtained from slaughterhouse buffalo ovaries were subjected to IVM and IVF. The IVM or IVC media were supplemented with 0, 50, 100 or 200 μm cysteamine. Supplementation of IVM medium with 50 μm cysteamine increased (P < 0.01) the cleavage rate and blastocyst yield without affecting the HR and TCN whereas a higher concentration of 200 μm significantly (P < 0.05) reduced the blastocyst yield but not TCN. Similar increases in blastocyst yield, without any effect on HR and TCN were observed after supplementation of the IVC medium with 100 (P < 0.01) or 50 μm (P < 0.05) cysteamine, whereas 200 μm cysteamine was ineffective. Supplementation of both IVM medium with 50 μm cysteamine and of IVC medium with 100 μm cysteamine increased the yield of blastocysts and hatched blastocyst by over 100% (P < 0.01) compared with the controls without any adverse effects on HR or TCN. The results of the present study suggest that supplementation of both IVM and IVC media improves the yield of blastocysts without compromising their health.
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