MiRNAs in follicular fluid
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ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens
PROVIDER: GSE63737 | GEO | 2015/05/12
SECONDARY ACCESSION(S): PRJNA268950
REPOSITORIES: GEO
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Project description:Our aim with this work is to identify and quantify the miRNA profile of the human follicular fluid using a miRNA microarray approach in young and advanced-aged women and in follicles with different oocyte quality. Data collected in this study would be utilized in a future as a marker to predict the oocyte quality. This observational prospective study includes women enrolled in the assisted reproduction program of Hospital Universitari i Politècnic la Fe (Valencia, Spain). The study was accepted by IRB of this Hospital and all couples received informed consent of our study and assisted technique according to service protocols. The study was divided in two stages: Stage 1: Patients (n=21) who had follicles yielding oocytes with different degree of maturation were included (n=21). The follicular fluid samples from 21 patients were pooled in different groups. Expression of miRNA in the follicular fluids was compared within each patient according the degree of oocyte maturation. Stage 2: Patients were allocated into two groups according to the patient's age: advanced age (AA; >36 years old) and young age (YA; <36 years old). Follicular fluids from follicles containing MII oocytes were pooled and miRNA expression was subsequently compared. Please note that the MII samples with underscore (such as MII1 vs MII_1) indicate different pools so they are not the same sample, but we maintained the number because they correspond to paired samples pools for GV and MI.
2015-05-12 | E-GEOD-63737 | biostudies-arrayexpress
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Project description:Follicular fluid (FF) provides a complex and suitable environment for oocyte maturation and contains several molecules secreted from oocyte and granulosa, cumulus, and theca cells. In addition, extracellular vesicles (EV) exist in various body fluids and are known as the cargo of several mRNAs, proteins, and miRNAs to communicate from cell to cell. In this study, we investigated the miRNA profiles of FF-derived EVs.
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Project description:This study aimed to reveal if peptide profiling of individual human follicular fluid could become a new non-invasive predictive biomarker for oocyte quality, and attempted to discover candidate biomarkers for fertilization. In biomarker studies, because of normal clinical or biological variabil-ity, candidate biomarkers need to be validated across a large number of samples. To ensure that the discovered biomarkers are truly associated with oocytes quality and fertilization rather than the result of variability, three independent experiments were designed with a large population. In the present study, we investigated the peptide profile of human follicular fluid with fertilized and non-fertilized oocytes from patients undergoing in vitro fertilization using proteomic analysis with liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry. We additionally determined the protein identi-ties of the discovered peptide biomarkers as a first step toward understanding the pathways in which they may function.
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