1. Marcadores moleculares para qualidade de ovocitos bovino
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Sprícigo JF and Dode MA
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Competence ,oocyte ,cumulus cell ,follicular fluid ,Reproduction ,QH471-489 ,Zoology ,QL1-991 - Abstract
Oocyte selection using morphological criteria is currently used, but this selection approach has limitations in terms of accuracy, objectivity, and constancy. Therefore, the development of new methods that could allow the identification of molecular markers that can predict the oocyte competency more accurately is needed. Considering that follicular environment may reflects oocyte status, it can provide new alternatives for non-invasive assessment of oocyte quality. The efforts are concentrated on determining transcriptional profiling of cumulus (CC) and granulosa cells (MGC) and on biochemical profiling of follicular fluid (FF). The approaches used are transcriptomics, proteomics, and metabolomics technologies. In this review, we first describe the studies that aimed to identify molecular markers on the oocyte itself, that although gives relevant information regarding to the understanding of competency acquisition, they destroy the oocyte. Then, studies that evaluated cumulus/granulosa cell gene expression and especially those that followed the embryo development until the blastocyst stage are reported. Lastly, the possibility of identifying markers on FF is discussed as well as the tendency observer on the last few years of evaluating not only one metabolite but all metabolites using metabolomics as tool.
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- 2017
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