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Andrology ; 9(1): 426-439, 2021 01.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-32920990

RESUMO

BACKGROUND: The current results of in vitro reproduction techniques in pigs, such as in vitro fertilization (IVF) and embryo development, show high performance with both epididymal and ejaculated spermatozoa. However, the results using ejaculated spermatozoa are even better. Ejaculated spermatozoa are exposed to the secretions of the accessory seminal glands: the seminal plasma (SP). It has been reported that exposure of spermatozoa to reproductive fluids, such as SP or periovulatory oviductal fluid (pOF), modulates sperm functionality both in vivo and in vitro. But whether or not this modulating effect of pOF depends on the origin of the spermatozoa being epididymal or ejaculated, is still unknown. OBJECTIVES: To determine and compare the effect of pOF on epididymal and ejaculated sperm functionality. MATERIAL AND METHODS: The effects of incubating spermatozoa from the epididymis and ejaculate with pOF in capacitating conditions were investigated by analyzing sperm motility, phosphorylation of protein kinase A substrates and proteins in tyrosine (pPKAs and pTyr, respectively), the interaction of the spermatozoa with the oocyte in IVF and intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI), and, finally, the spermatozoa chromatin condensation status. RESULTS: The pOF modified events related to capacitation in epididymal spermatozoa by decreasing motility, pPKAs and pTyr. In the interaction with the oocyte after sperm capacitation, pOF regulated the epididymal and ejaculated spermatozoa differently. While pOF decreased the number of spermatozoa bound to the zona pellucida (Spz/ZP) and increased oocyte activation after ICSI with epididymal spermatozoa, with the ejaculated spermatozoa, it decreased the mean number penetrating each oocyte (Spz/O). Additionally, pOF significantly increased the nuclear decondensation of the epididymal spermatozoa after the fertilization of the oocyte. CONCLUSION: The modulation of sperm functionality by pOF is conditioned by the origin of the spermatozoa.


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Ejaculação , Oviductos/fisiologia , Injeções de Esperma Intracitoplásmicas , Espermatozoides/fisiologia , Suínos , Animais , Líquidos Corporais/fisiologia , Feminino , Masculino , Ovulação , Capacitação Espermática , Motilidade dos Espermatozoides
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Reproduction ; 140(2): 259-72, 2010 Aug.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-20501790

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Sperm-mediated gene transfer (SMGT) is a method for the production of transgenic animals based on the intrinsic ability of sperm cells to bind and internalize exogenous DNA molecules and to transfer them into the oocyte at fertilization. Recombinase-A (RecA) protein-coated exogenous DNA has been used previously in pronuclear injection systems increasing integration into goat and pig genomes. However, there are no data regarding transgene expression after ICSI. Here, we set out to investigate whether the expression of transgenic DNA in porcine embryos is improved by recombinase-mediated DNA transfer and if it is possible to generate transgenic animals using this methodology. Different factors which could affect the performance of this transgenic methodology were analyzed by studying 1) the effect of the presence of exogenous DNA and RecA protein on boar sperm functionality; 2) the effect of recombinase RecA on in vitro enhanced green fluorescent protein (EGFP)-expressing embryos produced by ICSI or IVF; and 3) the efficiency of generation of transgenic piglets by RecA-mediated ICSI. Our results suggested that 1) the presence of exogenous DNA and RecA-DNA complexes at 5 microg/ml did not affect sperm functionality in terms of motility, viability, membrane lipid disorder, or reactive oxygen species generation; 2) EGFP-expressing embryos were obtained with a high efficiency using the SMGT-ICSI technique in combination with recombinase; however, the use of IVF system did not result in any fluorescent embryos; and 3) transgenic piglets were produced by this methodology. To our knowledge, this is the first time that transgenic pigs have been produced by ICSI-SGMT and a recombinase.


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Animais Geneticamente Modificados/fisiologia , Técnicas de Transferência de Genes/veterinária , Recombinases Rec A/genética , Injeções de Esperma Intracitoplásmicas/veterinária , Espermatozoides/fisiologia , Suínos/fisiologia , Animais , Animais Geneticamente Modificados/genética , Animais Recém-Nascidos/fisiologia , Western Blotting/veterinária , Sobrevivência Celular/fisiologia , DNA/química , DNA/genética , Feminino , Proteínas de Fluorescência Verde/genética , Imuno-Histoquímica/veterinária , Masculino , Reação em Cadeia da Polimerase/veterinária , Gravidez , Injeções de Esperma Intracitoplásmicas/métodos , Motilidade dos Espermatozoides/fisiologia , Suínos/genética
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