In vitro development of growing oocytes from fetal mouse oocytes: stage-specific regulation by stem cell factor and granulosa cells

Developmental Biology
Francesca Gioia Klinger, M De Felici

Abstract

The development of follicles in the mammalian ovary involves a bidirectional communication system between the follicular cells and oocyte that is now beginning to be characterized. Little is known about the mechanisms underlying the beginning of the oocyte growth and the acquisition of the competence to resume meiosis by the growing oocyte. In the present study, we devised a multistep culture system for mouse oocytes obtained from 15.5- to 16.5-days postcoitum embryos (mean diameter +/- SEM, 9.7 +/- 1.3 microm), allowing three stages of the oocyte growth to be identified: (i) an early stage in which the oocyte growth is induced by direct stimulation of a soluble growth factor, namely stem cell factor (SCF), independent of the formation of gap junctions with granulosa cells; (ii) a second phase in which the oocyte growth depends on the combined action of SCF and contacts with granulosa cells; and (iii) a third phase of granulosa cell-dependent, SCF-independent growth. At each stage, key events of oocyte development and differentiation, such as the c-kit reexpression, the early zona pellucida assembly, and the beginning of follicologenesis, were observed to occur independently by the presence of SCF. At the end of the in vitro gr...Continue Reading

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