Ovum pick up, in vitro embryo production, and pregnancy rates from a large-scale commercial program using Nelore cattle (Bos indicus) donors
| Autor: | Marcelo Marcondes Seneda, Andrea Basso, J.H.F. Pontes, B. V. Sanches, F.A. Melo Sterza, Christina R. Ferreira, K.C.P. Rubin |
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| Rok vydání: | 2009 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
Pregnancy Rate medicine.medical_treatment Fertilization in Vitro Biology Andrology Embryo Culture Techniques Food Animals Pregnancy Follicular phase medicine Animals Small Animals Ovum Gynecology In vitro fertilisation Equine Donor selection Embryo Oocyte medicine.disease In vitro Pregnancy rate medicine.anatomical_structure Animal Science and Zoology Cattle Female |
| Zdroj: | Theriogenology. 75(9) |
| ISSN: | 1879-3231 |
| Popis: | The objective was to clarify in vitro production of bovine embryos in Brazil. Data from 656 ovum pick-up/in vitro production (OPU/IVP) procedures, performed on 317 Nelore (Bos indicus) donors, without hormone stimulation or control of ovarian follicular waves, were analysed. Donors were subjected to OPU from one to nine times (no specific schedule), with < 15 d between consecutive procedures. There were 20,848 oocytes, of which 15,747 (75.53%) were considered viable, 5,446 embryos were obtained, 5,398 embryos were immediately transferred, resulting in 1,974 pregnancies (36.57%) at Day 30 and 1,788 (33.12%) pregnancies at Day 60. The average number of total and viable oocytes produced per OPU session was (mean ± SEM) 30.84 ± 0.88 and 23.35 ± 0.7 (average of 8.1 ± 0.3 embryos and 3.0 ± 0.1 pregnancies per OPU-IVP procedure). Since oocyte production varied widely among donor, they were designated as very high, high, intermediate, and low, with 58.94 ± 2.04, 32.61 ± 0.50, 22.13 ± 0.50, and 10.26 ± 0.57 oocytes, respectively, produced by 78, 80, 79, and 80 donors. The number of viable oocytes recovered ranged from 0 to 128; since donors with numerous viable oocytes produced many viable embryos and pregnancies, oocyte production was useful for donor selection. However, there was no significant effect of the number of OPU sessions per donor on mean numbers of oocytes produced. In conclusion, we confirmed field reports of high oocyte production by some Nelore donors and demonstrated individual variation in oocyte yield, which was associated with embryo production and pregnancy rates. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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