Effect of follicle somatic cells during pig oocyte maturation on egg penetrability and male pronucleus formation
- 1 June 1988
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Gamete Research
- Vol. 20 (2) , 177-183
- https://doi.org/10.1002/mrd.1120200208
Abstract
In order to investigate the effect of the somatic cells of the follicle on the preparation of the oocyte for fertilization three experiments were carried out. In the first, pig oocytes, cultured for 46 h in the presence of extroverted follicles (follicle oocytes) or surrounded by the cumulus (cumulus oocytes), were exposed to sperm in an in vitro fertilization system. Follicle oocytes showed a higher rate of fertilization than that recorded in cumulus oocytes (80% vs. 47%). In addition, significantly more sperm penetrated into the ooplasm of follicular oocytes (3.77/egg) than into that of cumulus oocytes (1.42/egg). To investigate the reason for the observed fertilization difference zona-free oocytes were studied in the second experiment. Significantly more spermatozoa were recorded in the ooplasm of follicle oocytes than in that of cumulus oocytes, thus suggesting that the effect of the follicle on fertilizability may partly depend on an action on the plasma membrane of the oocyte. A further effect of the follicular tissue was on cytoplasmic maturation: only follicular oocytes were capable of consistently promoting male pronucleus formation. In cumulus oocytes, sperm that entered the cytoplasm remained in a condensed form near the female pronucleus. In the third experiment cumulus oocytes and denuded oocytes were matured in medium that had been previously used to mature follicle oocytes. This conditioned medium was alone able to affect sperm penetration and male pronucleus formation in cumulus oocytes, but it did not exert any influence on denuded oocytes. This suggests that the observed effect of the follicle is mediated by soluble factors that, however, cannot influence the oocyte without some direct cell-oocyte contact.Keywords
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