Title
Extracellular vesicles secreted during blastulation show viability of bovine embryos
Date Issued
01 January 2019
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Briones M.A.
Velásquez A.E.
Cabezas J.
Castro F.O.
Rodríguez-Álvarez L.
Universidad de Concepcion
Publisher(s)
BioScientifica Ltd.
Abstract
Extracellular vesicles (EVs) secreted by blastocysts may be clinically relevant, as indicator of embryo viability on in vitro fertilization. We tested if the characteristics of EVs secreted during blastulation are related to embryo viability. Morulae were individually cultured in SOF media depleted of EVs until day 7.5 post IVF. Viable embryos were determined by a system of extended in vitro culture of bovine embryos until day 11 (post-hatching development). Afterward, a retrospective classification of blastocyst and culture media was performed based on blastulation time (early blastulation (EB) or late blastulation (LB)) and post-hatching development at day 11 (viable (V) or non-viable embryo (NV)). A total of 254 blastocysts and their culture media were classified in four groups (V-EB, NV-EB, V-LB, NV-LB). Group V-EB had a larger blastocyst diameter (170.8 μm), higher proportion of good-quality blastocysts (77%) and larger mean size of population of EVs (122.9 nm), although the highest concentration of EVs (5.75 × 109 particles/mL) were in group NV-EB. Furthermore, small RNA sequencing detected two biotypes, miRNA (86–91%) and snoRNA (9–14%), with a total of 182 and 32 respectively. In differential expression analysis of miRNAs between V versus NV blastocysts, there were 12 miRNAs upregulated and 15 miRNAs downregulated. Binary logistic regression was used to construct a non-invasive novel model to select viable embryos, based on a combination of variables of blastocyst morphokinetics and EVs characteristics, the ROC-AUC was 0.853. We concluded that characteristics of EVs secreted during blastulation vary depending on embryo quality.
Start page
477
End page
492
Volume
158
Issue
6
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Biotecnología ambiental
Ciencia veterinaria
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85076237836
PubMed ID
Source
Reproduction
ISSN of the container
14701626
Source funding
Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China
Sponsor(s)
This work was partially supported by FONDECYT 1170310 from the Ministry of Education of Chile. The funders had no role in the study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
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