Abstract
In most mammals, oocyte maturation is the final process of oogenesis, from the prophase of the first meiosis to the metaphase of the second meiosis, during which the oocyte acquires fertilizable competence as well as post-fertilization development competence. Notably, cytoplasmic maturation is important for oocytes to acquire fertilizable and post-fertilization developmental competence during maturation, and mainly regulated by environmental factors in ovarian antral follicles including follicular fluids and intercellular communication between oocytes and follicle cells such as granulosa and cumulus cells.
Midkine (MK) is included in follicular fluids at high concentrations, and its receptor complexes are present in antral follicles. In the in vitro maturation (IVM), cytoplasmic maturation of bovine cumulus-enclosed oocytes (CEOs) is promoted by adding MK to IVM medium. The promoting effect is not exerted in oocytes freed from CEOs (denuded oocytes, DOs), but is exerted in DOs co-cultured with cumulus cells or cultured with conditioned medium of granulosa cells prepared in the presence of MK. Furthermore, MK has anti-apoptotic effects on cumulus cells. Taken together, it is suggested that MK acts on the cumulus cells surrounding an oocyte to help them survive and secrete a cytoplasmic maturation-promoting factor(s), which acts directly on oocytes.
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Funding: This work was supported in part by Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan, and by grants from the Ito Foundation and the Association of Livestock Technology (Japan).
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Yamada, M., Isaji, Y., Ikeda, S. (2012). Midkine, a Factor Promoting Cytoplasmic Maturation of Oocytes. In: Ergüven, M., Muramatsu, T., Bilir, A. (eds) Midkine: From Embryogenesis to Pathogenesis and Therapy. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4234-5_16
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