Decreased embryonic survival of in-vitro fertilized oocytes in rats is due to retardation of preimplantation development
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Summary. Immature female rats (60–65 g) were injected with 4 i.u. PMSG on Day –2 and allocated to 3 groups. On the evening of Day 0, rats in Groups I and II were allowed to mate. Embryos were collected on Day 4 (Group I, control morulae) or Day 5 (Group II, control blastocysts) and were transferred into the oviduct or uterine horn of Day-4 pregnant recipient rats. On the transfer side of the recipients, the bursa had been peeled from around the ovary to prevent endogenous oocytes from entering the oviduct. For Group III, unmated donors were killed 65–67 h after PMSG injection. Ovulated oocytes recovered from the oviducts were fertilized in vitro and transferred 16–18 h later. Embryos developing from in-vitro fertilized (IVF) oocytes were recovered on Day 5, separated into morulae (Group IIIm) and blastocysts (Group IIIb) and transferred into Day-4 pregnant recipients similar to control embryos. Some embryos from each group were used to determine the mean number of cells/embryo. Embryo recipients were killed on Day 20.
After transfer, the development of IVF oocytes was retarded compared to control embryos. IVF morulae contained significantly fewer cells/embryo than did control morulae but were able to implant and grow to fetuses, in proportions similar to controls, if transferred into the oviduct of the recipients.
These results suggest that the developmental potential of rat oocytes fertilized in vitro is limited due to asynchrony between the embryo and the uterine environment at the time of implantation, rather than possible defects incurred by the oocyte during the fertilization procedure.
Keywords: in-vitro fertilization; embryo development; implantation; asynchronous transfer; rat
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