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Effect of SOPS and Cryotop vitrification of porcine blastocysts produced in vivo on their transcriptome profile

ABSTRACT: The objective of this study was therefore to evaluate the impact of simultaneous vitrification of large numbers of embryos with the OC (20 embryos per device) system on gene expression patterns of in vivo-derived blastocysts when compared to the Superfine Open Pulled Straw (SOPS) system (5-7 embryos per device) through a microarray approach. In vivo-developed embryos were surgically retrieved from 16 sows in 4 replicates. Embryos at the blastocyst stage (n=180) were selected for the experiment and divided into three experimental groups: blastocysts vitrified with the OC system (n=60), blastocysts vitrified with the SOPS system (n=60), and a control group consisting of fresh, nonvitrified blastocysts (n=60). After in vitro culture for 24 h, six pools of 8 viable embryos (n=48 embryos per group) were prepared for transcriptome analysis. Embryos were placed in sterile tubes with 5 µL of PBS, immediately immersed in LN2 and stored at -80 °C until microarray analysis. After microarray analysis, a list of DEGs was generated for comparison of each vitrification system (OC and SOPS) with the control. Then, the two DEG lists were compared to determine the specific genes altered in each vitrification system and the DEGs shared by both systems. In addition, a list of DEGs was obtained by direct comparison of both vitrification systems. Pathway enrichment analysis was performed for each obtained list of DEGs.

ORGANISM(S): Sus scrofa

SUBMITTER: Cristina Cuello

PROVIDER: E-MTAB-12772 | biostudies-arrayexpress |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress

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Project description:Studies on embryo cryopreservation efficiency had been focused mainly on technical and embryo factors. While structural damages can be easily evaluated, physiological damages only can be estimated by analyzing their in vitro and in vivo development to later stages. In order to determine how cryopreservation process affect embryo pre-implantory development, a transcriptional microarray study has been performed comparing gene expression of 6 days old rabbit embryos, previously vitrified or frozen and transferred into recipients rabbit females, to their in vivo counterparts. For each experimental group, control, vitrified and frozen late blastocysts, total RNA was extracted from 3 pools of approximately 10 embryos and labeled with Cy3 or Cy5 dyes. Then, six competitive hybridizations were carried out including two dye-swaps to compensate dye-bias. A specifically microarray designed to study rabbit gene expression profiling, the Rabbit 44K oligonucleotide array (Agilent Technologies), was used in this study. Identification of differentially expressed transcripts from 6 day old blastocysts was achieved using the Limma algorithm, and functional annotation was performed by Blast2GO software. Compared to 6 day old in vivo derived embryos, viable vitrified embryos only present 3 differentially expressed genes, in contrast to frozen viable embryos with 24 genes upregulated and 46 genes downregulated. These results reveal that effects of cryopreservation still remain in late blastocyst pre-implantatory gene expression, and potential damage and alterations produced by vitrification and slow-freezing procedures are differentially resolved after 3 days of in vivo development. Transcriptional microarray study that compares gene expression of viable 6 day old rabbit embryos, previosly vitrified or frozen and tranferred into recipient rabbit females, to their in vivo counterparts. Experiment 1: Control embryos vs. Vitrified embryos and Experiment 2: Control embryos vs. Frozen embryos. Biological replicates used: 3 replicates for control embryos, 3 replicates for vitrified embryos and 3 replicates for frozen embryos.

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Effect of SOPS and Cryotop vitrification of porcine blastocysts produced in vivo on their transcriptome profile

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