Characterisation of bovine embryos following prolonged culture in embryonic stem cell medium containing leukaemia inhibitory factor
Misa Hosoe A B H , Tadashi Furusawa A , Ken-Go Hayashi B , Toru Takahashi C , Yutaka Hashiyada D E , Keiichiro Kizaki C , Kazuyoshi Hashizume C , Tomoyuki Tokunaga A , Shuichi Matsuyama F G and Ryosuke Sakumoto B
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A Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, National Agriculture and Food Research Organization, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8602, Japan.
B Institute of Livestock and Grassland Science, National Agriculture and Food Research Organization, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0901, Japan.
C Department of Veterinary Medicine, Faculty of Agriculture, Iwate University, Iwate 020-8550, Japan.
D National Livestock Breeding Center, Nishigo, Fukushima 961-8511, Japan.
E Ishikawa Prefectural University, Nono, Ishikawa, 921-8836, Japan.
F Institute of Livestock and Grassland Science, National Agriculture and Food Reasarch Organization, Nasushiobara, Tochigi 329-2793, Japan.
G Nagoya University, Nagoya, Aichi 464-8601, Japan.
H Corresponding author. Email: hosoe@affrc.go.jp
Reproduction, Fertility and Development 31(6) 1157-1165 https://doi.org/10.1071/RD18343
Submitted: 25 August 2018 Accepted: 2 February 2019 Published: 29 April 2019
Journal Compilation © CSIRO 2019 Open Access CC BY-NC-ND
Abstract
In order to help elucidate the process of epiblast and trophoblast cell differentiation in bovine embryos in vitro, we attempted to develop a suitable culture medium to allow extended embryo culture. Day 7 bovine blastocysts developed in conventional medium were cultured further in embryonic stem cell medium with or without leukaemia inhibitory factor (LIF) until Day 23. At Day 14, the expression of octamer-binding transcription factor 3/4 (OCT3/4) and VIMENTIN was significantly higher in embryos cultured with than without LIF, but embryonic disc formation was not observed. Although expression of SRY (sex determining region Y)-box 17 (SOX17) mRNA was significantly lower in Day 14 embryos cultured with and without LIF than in in vivo embryos, hypoblast cells formed just inside the trophoblast cells of the in vitro-cultured embryos. On Day 23, expression of placental lactogen (PL) and prolactin-related protein 1 (PRP1) was not affected by LIF in in vitro-cultured embryos, levels of both genes were significantly lower in the in vitro than in vivo embryos. Similar to in vivo embryos, binucleate cell clusters seen in Day 23 in vitro-cultured embryos were composed of PL-negative and -positive cells. These results suggest that our culture system partially reproduced the differentiation process of trophoblast cells in vivo.
Additional keywords: binucleate cell, embryo differentiation, epiblast, trophoblast.
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