Anti-Muellerian hormone levels in plasma of Holstein-Friesian heifers as a predictive parameter for ovum pick-up and embryo production outcomes
| Autor: | Andreas Kuwer, Torsten Viergutz, Andreas Vernunft, Mona Schwerhoff, Mike Diederich |
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| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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Anti-Mullerian Hormone
Ovulation endocrine system medicine.medical_specialty animal structures animal diseases media_common.quotation_subject Oocyte Retrieval Superovulation Ovary Fertilization in Vitro Biology Embryo Culture Techniques Ovarian Follicle Internal medicine medicine Animals Anti-Muellerian hormone (AMH) Blastocyst Ovarian follicle Technology Report Ovum media_common Ovum pick-up (OPU) urogenital system Anti-Müllerian hormone Embryo Oocyte Endocrinology medicine.anatomical_structure IVF Linear Models Oocytes biology.protein Cattle Female Animal Science and Zoology Hormone |
| Zdroj: | The Journal of Reproduction and Development The journal of reproduction and development, 61(1): 74-79 |
| ISSN: | 1348-4400 0916-8818 |
| DOI: | 10.1262/jrd.2014-091 |
| Popis: | The aim of this study was to investigate whether plasma anti-Muellerian hormone (AMH) levels of Holstein-Friesian heifers could be used to predict ovum pick-up (OPU) and embryo production outcomes. Plasma samples and data were collected from 64 heifers, which underwent repeated OPU with subsequent in vitro embryo production followed by embryo flushing after superovulation. AMH levels were significantly positively correlated with the number of follicles aspirated per OPU session (r = 0.45), recovered oocytes per OPU (r =0.43) and in vitro produced embryos per OPU (r = 0.28). No significant correlations between AMH and in vivo produced embryos were ascertained. Our results suggest that correlations between AMH and outcomes of an OPU-IVF program are too low to use AMH as a precise predictive parameter for the success of a particular OPU procedure in Holstein-Friesian heifers. However, AMH can help to identify groups of very good or very poor oocyte donors. |
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