Table 6. Blastocyst and full-term development of in vitro fertilization (IVF) embryos derived from germinal vesicle (GV)-stage oocytes of reused mice.
Recovery period after surgery | No. of used mice | No. (average) * of GV oocytes | No. (average) * [%] of MII oocytes after IVM | No. of used oocytes | No. (%) ** of oocytes with 2PN formed | No. of embryos developed to |
No. of transferred embryos (no. of recipients) | No. (%) ** [min–max] of offspring |
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2 cell | 4–8 cell | Morula | Blastocyst (%) ** | ||||||||
Control | 16 | 493 (30.8) a | 381 (23.8) a [77.3] | 264 | 156 (59.1) | 143 | 111 | 87 | 69 (44.2) a | – | – |
66 | 48 (72.7) | 44 | – | – | – | 44 (4) | 13 (29.5) a [22.2–33.3] | ||||
10 days | 12 | 327 (27.3) a | 203 (16.9) a [62.1] | 155 | 95 (61.3) | 89 | 64 | 43 | 40 (42.1) a | – | – |
47 | 31 (66.0) | 30 | – | – | – | 30 (2) | 13 (43.3) a [31.3–57.1] | ||||
20 days | 14 | 425 (30.4) a | 302 (21.6) a [71.1] | 281 | 167 (59.4) a | 155 | 116 | 94 | 78 (46.7) a | – | – |
19 | 16 (84.2) b | 16 | - | – | – | 16 (1) | 5 (31.3) a [31.3] | ||||
30 days | 27 | 733 (27.1) a | 552 (20.4) a [75.3] | 426 | 267 (62.7) | 240 | 170 | 115 | 97 (36.3) a | – | – |
88 | 66 (75.0) b | 63 | – | – | – | 63 (4) | 18 (28.6) a [15.0–63.6] |
Some experimental groups were not performed with control at the same time. PN: Pronuclei. * Identical letters indicate no significant differences by t-test (P > 0.01). ** Identical letters indicate no significant differences by Pearson’s Chi-square test (P > 0.01).