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a Department of Biotechnology, Institute for Animal Husbandry and Behaviour, Mariensee, 31535 Neustadt, Germany
This study was an investigation of metabolism during bovine preimplantation development from the oocyte up to the hatched blastocyst derived in vitro or in vivo. Metabolism was determined by estimating the consumption of radiolabeled glucose, pyruvate, or lactate during a 4-h incubation period in a closed noninvasive system with NaOH as trap for the continuous collection of CO2. The postincubation medium was analyzed for the presence of lactate. Embryonic metabolism from the matured oocyte to the 12-cell stage was more or less constant, with pyruvate being the preferred substrate. The first marked increase in oxidation of glucose occurred between the 12- and 16-cell stage. Compaction of morula and blastocyst expansion was accompanied by significant increases in oxidation of all three energy substrates. The incorporation of glucose increased steadily 15-fold from the 1-cell to the blastocyst stage. In general, the pattern of metabolism was similar between the embryos derived in vitro and in vivo but with some distinct differences. The most apparent feature of glucose metabolism by in vitro-produced embryos was a 2-fold higher rate of aerobic glycolysis as compared to that in their in vivo counterparts. In vitro-matured oocytes produced measurable amounts of lactate, whereas in vivo-matured oocytes exhibited a significantly lower metabolic activity and did not produce any lactate. When in vivo-collected embryos were preexposed to culture conditions, lactate production increased significantly and at the hatched blastocyst stage matched that of their in vitro counterparts. In vitro-produced embryos up to the 8-cell stage oxidized significantly higher amounts of lactate and had a lower ratio of pyruvate-to-lactate oxidation than the in vivo-obtained embryos. The results of this study show that under our culture conditions, important differences exist at the biochemical level between bovine embryos produced in vitro and those generated in vivo that may well affect the developmental capacity.
1 N.K.K. was financially supported by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Bonn, Germany, in the form of a postdoctoral fellowship.
2 Correspondence. FAX: 49 05034 871 101; niemann{at}tzv.fal.de
3 Current address: Sector-I, Govt. Livestock Farm, Hisar-125001, Haryana, India.
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