Gonadotropin-induced murine oocyte maturation in vivo is not associated with decreased cyclic adenosine monophosphate in the oocyte-cumulus cell complex.

Authors

J J. EppigFollow
S M. Downs

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1988

Keywords

Animal, Female, Gonadotropins-Chorionic, Mice, Oocytes: de, gd, me, Ovulation: de, SUPPORT-U-S-GOVT-P-H-S

First Page

125

Last Page

131

JAX Location

1728

JAX Source

Gamete Res 1988 Jun; 20(2):125-31.

Grant

HD20575

Abstract

The cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cAMP) content of intact oocyte-cumulus cell complexes at various times after the induction of oocyte maturation in mice in vivo was correlated with the time of commitment by the oocytes to undergo germinal vesicle breakdown (GVB) and metabolic coupling between the oocyte and cumulus cells. Seventy-nine percent of the oocytes either underwent GVB or were committed to do so by 2 h after injection of human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG). This occurred without a decrease in the coupling between cumulus cells and the oocyte and with increasing cAMP levels in the oocyte-cumulus cell complex. Maintenance of threshold levels of cAMP within mammalian oocytes appears essential for the maintenance of meiotic arrest, but data presented here suggest that oocyte maturation in mice is induced by gonadotropins in nonatretic follicles in vivo by some mechanism other than one which decreases the cAMP content of the intact oocyte-cumulus cell complex.

Recommended Citation

Eppig JJ, Downs SM. Gonadotropin-induced murine oocyte maturation in vivo is not associated with decreased cyclic adenosine monophosphate in the oocyte-cumulus cell complex. Gamete Res 1988 Jun; 20(2):125-31.