Project description:The Pik3cd null females are subfertile and have less growing follicles than their heterozygous littermates in the ovary. These mice poorly respond to the exogenous gonadotropins and ovulate much less oocytes than controls. In addition, the estrodial stimulated GC proliferation in preantral follicles is also impaired in Pik3cd null ovaries. FSH and E2 dramatically activates PI3K/AKT pathway in GCs of wild type mice, but not in the Pik3cd null mice. we used microarray to identify those genes regulated by Pik3cd in response to PMSG (Pregnant Mare Serum Gonadotropin) and E2 treatment in ovary.
Project description:The Pik3cd null females are subfertile and have less growing follicles than their heterozygous littermates in the ovary. These mice poorly respond to the exogenous gonadotropins and ovulate much less oocytes than controls. In addition, the estrodial stimulated GC proliferation in preantral follicles is also impaired in Pik3cd null ovaries. FSH and E2 dramatically activates PI3K/AKT pathway in GCs of wild type mice, but not in the Pik3cd null mice. we used microarray to identify those genes regulated by Pik3cd in response to PMSG (Pregnant Mare Serum Gonadotropin) and E2 treatment in ovary. We set 3 treatment groups of both Pik3cd+/- and Pik3cd-/- female mice, including PD21 untreatment, PD21 after PMSG administration for 44 hours, PD21 after E2 administration for 72 hours, each group contained three biological repeats. The genes up/down-regulated significantly (not less than 2 fold change) in Pik3cd+/- mice after PMSG and E2 treatment were listed out as PMSG or E2 target genes, in which, those had not the same change trends in Pik3cd-/- were considered as Pik3cd-dependent genes.
Project description:Explore in vivo ovarian follicle transcriptomics from primordial follicles to the antral stage. Ovarian follicles were isolated from CD-1 mice. Entire ovaries were collected at post-natal day 3 and day 4 to collect primordial follicles. Primary follicles (70-90 µm in diameter), two-layered secondary follicles (100-130 µm), multi-layer secondary follicles (150‒180 µm), and pre-antral follicles (200‒300 µm) were mechanically isolated from post-natal day 10, 12, 16, and 18 ovaries, respectively. Antral follicles (400‒600 µm) were mechanically isolated from pregnant mare serum gonadotropin (PMSG)-treated mice ovaries at post-natal day 20. Follicles were then aspirated and combined per ovarian follicle maturation stage (e.g., primary, two-layered secondary). Three different samples were collected from each pooled follicular stage for transcriptomic analysis. RNA was purified and hybridized in MouseRef-8 v2.0 Expression BeadChip Kit (Illumina, San Diego, CA), as previously described (Skory, Bernabe et al., 2013).
Project description:To understand the role of prostaglandin (PG) receptor EP2 (Ptger2) signaling in ovulation and fertilization, we investigated time-dependent expression profiles in wild-type (WT) and Ptger2-/- cumuli before and after ovulation by using microarrays. We used Affymetrix U74A ver2 microarrays to investigate gonadotropin-induced gene expression profiles in WT and EP2KO cumulus cells before and after ovulation. Immature mice were primed with pregnant mare serum gonadotropin (PMSG) as an FSH-like stimulation. The cumulus-oocyte complexes (COCs) were isolated from mice 48 h after PMSG injection (H0) and from PMSG-primed mice exposed to human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) as an LH-like stimulation for 3, 9 or 14 h (H3, H9 or H14, respectively).
Project description:We investigate the role of Snf2l in ovaries by characterizing a mouse bearing an inactivating deletion on the ATPase domain of Snf2l (Ex6DEL). Snf2l mutant mice produce significantly fewer eggs than control mice when superovulated. Thus, gonadotropin stimulation leads to a significant deficit in secondary follicles and an increase in abnormal antral follicles. We profiled the expression of granulosa cells from Snf2l WT and Ex6DEL mice treated with pregnant mares' serum gonadotropin followed by human chorionic gonadotropin Granulosa cells from either Snf2l WT or Ex6DEL mice treated with PMSG followed by hCG were collected at 0h and 4h post-hCG. Each array includes granulosa cells pooled from 5 mice.
Project description:the aim of this work is to gain insight into Ovarianhyperstimulation Syndrome. All samples were mRNA from rat ovaries after 48 h of drug treatments.S1)1 IU PMSG + 1 IU hCG (this is the control)S2) 10 IU PMSG + 10 IU hCGS3) 40 IU PMSG + 30 IU hCG
Project description:Ovaries were collected post-PMSG induction 40h for 3 genotypes : wild-type (WT), DKO for LXRalpha and LXRbeta (DKO) and DKO for LXRalpha and LXRbeta rescued for LXRbeta in granulosa cells (TG-AMHb).
Project description:Inhibin α knockout (Inha-/-) female mice develop sex cord-stromal ovarian cancer with complete penetrance and previous studies demonstrate that the pituitary gonadotropins [follicle stimulating hormone (FSH) and luteinizing hormone (LH)] are influential modifiers of granulosa cell tumor development and progression in inhibin-deficient females. Recent studies have demonstrated that Inha-/- ovarian follicles develop precociously to the early antral stage in prepubertal mice without any increase in serum FSH and these studies suggested that in the absence of inhibins, granulosa cells differentiate abnormally, and thus at sexual maturity may undergo an abnormal response to gonadotropin signaling. To test this hypothesis, we stimulated immature WT and Inha-/- female mice prior to gross tumor formation with gonadotropin analogs, and subsequently examined post-gonadotropin induced ovarian follicle development, as well as preovulatory and hCG-induced gene expression changes in granulosa cells. We find that at three weeks of age, inhibin-deficient ovaries do not show further antral development nor undergo cumulus expansion. Widespread alterations in the transcriptome of gonadotropin-treated Inha-/- granulosa cells suggest that gonadotropins initiate an improper program of cell differentiation in Inha-/- cells. Overall, our experiments reveal that inhibins are essential for the normal gonadotropin-dependent response of granulosa cells. (2) Genotypes (WT, Inh KO) collected from 2 preovulatory granulosa cells with and without hCG, in triplicate independent samples
Project description:Among the different procedures of the assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs), the purpose of ovarian stimulation with gonadotropins is to maximize the number of oocytes retrieved, and facilitate scheduling and planning of patient treatment. However, the doses of the gonadotropins required to increase the number of growing ovarian follicles, and, thereby, the number of oocytes, have been found to affect the quality of embryos in the mouse model of human reproduction (PMID 16569317, PMID 22802074, PMID 11387298, PMID 11157810). In order to clarify this issue, we compared the gene expression of mouse embryos with vs without a background of ovarian stimulation with PMSG and hCG. Pronuclear oocytes were cultured in KSOM(aa) and developmental stages were collected based on morphology. Analysis of transcriptome signal intensities showed similar profiles and produced the expected clustering (one cluster from oocyte to 2-cell stage, another cluster from 4-cell stage to blastocyst) regardless of whether the embryos were produced in stimulated or non-stimulated ovarian cycles; however, the expression levels of some genes were different depending on the ovarian stimulation.