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a Department of Neuroscience, University of California, Riverside, California 92521
Adhesion between the oocyte-cumulus complex and infundibulum plays an important, but poorly understood, role in oocyte pick-up. The purposes of this study were to determine which components of the oocyte-cumulus complex and oviductal epithelium function in adhesion, to measure adhesion under physiological conditions, and to examine the effect of modulation of adhesion on oocyte-cumulus complex pick-up rate. Oocyte-cumulus complexes containing an expanded matrix were readily transported into the oviduct, while unexpanded complexes lacking an extracellular matrix were not picked up, indicating that the matrix is necessary for pick-up. Transmission electron microscopy revealed that during pick-up, adhesion occurred specifically between the ciliary crowns of the oviduct and the granules and filaments of the cumulus matrix. An assay was developed using vacuum from a low-flow peristaltic precision pump, modified for bi-directional flow, to measure the strength of adhesion between the oocyte-cumulus complex and the oviductal epithelium, and adhesion was measured during physiological conditions. The lectin wheat germ agglutinin and the polycation poly-L-lysine were then used to modulate adhesion, and the effects of increasing or decreasing adhesion on oocyte pick-up rate and ciliary beat frequency were examined. The data show that 1) the matrix of the oocyte-cumulus complex and the ciliary crowns of the oviduct function in adhesion during pick-up and that adhesion is necessary for pick-up, 2) adhesion can be assayed quantitatively and is very uniform among control infundibula, and 3) decreasing or increasing adhesion decreases oocyte pick-up rate and in some cases prevents pick-up without affecting ciliary beat frequency.
1 Supported by Grant 6RT-0039 from the Tobacco Related Disease Research Program.
2 Correspondence. FAX: 909 787 4286; talbot{at}citrus.ucr.edu
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