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Development, Vol 115, Issue 3 821-826, Copyright © 1992 by Company of Biologists

JOURNAL ARTICLES

Platelet derived growth factor (PDGF) stimulates development of bovine embryos during the fourth cell cycle

RC Larson, GG Ignotz and WB Currie
Department of Animal Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853.

In vitro produced, 2-cell bovine embryos were cultured in serum-free medium supplemented with various combinations of growth factors to test the hypothesis that these polypeptide factors are able to signal preimplantation development. The developmental arrest that occurs during the 8-cell stage with typical culture methods might be relieved by a growth factor-dependent mechanism that would stimulate expression of the embryonic genome, thereby mimicking events that occur in vivo in the oviduct during the fourth cell cycle (8- to 16-cell stage). Subsequently, other growth factors might promote compaction and blastulation, processes which normally occur in the uterus. The effects of growth factors on early embryos were evaluated using phase contrast microscopy to monitor progression to the 8-cell stage, completion and duration of the fourth cell cycle, and blastocyst formation. Platelet derived growth factor (PDGF) promoted development beyond the 16-cell stage in 39.1% of the 2-cell embryos examined in all experiments. The duration of the fourth cell cycle among these embryos was approximately 26 hours. During development after the 16-cell stage, PDGF reduced the proportion of embryos bastulating from 12.7% to 5.8%; in contrast, transforming growth factor alpha (TGF alpha), acting during the same developmental time period, increased the proportion of embryos blastulating from 8.6% to 40.6%. These results, using serum-free medium, indicated that PDGF signalled completion of the fourth cell cycle. TGF alpha, and perhaps basic fibroblast growth factor (bFGF), promoted blastulation of 16-cell embryos during subsequent culture.


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