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Uptake and incidence of microperoxidase (Sigma) in the rat ova during cleavage at the 1-, 2-, 8-cell and blastocyst stages were studied after 30 min incubation with the enzyme (molecular weight of 1,900 and size of molecule of 2 nm).
Evidence was furnished of the presence of a small amount of reaction product of microperoxidase in the zona pellucida and its local concentration in some parts of the perivitelline space. The larger part of surface of the ovum, however, was free of microperoxidase. In the cytoplasm microperoxidase was found in pinocytotic vesicles, less frequently in large vacuoles and starting with the eight-cell stage in secondary lysosomes. The largest amount of microperoxidase was ascertained at the stage of blastocyst, chiefly in the cells of the trophoblast. In the cells of the embryoblast, on the contrary, microperoxidase was found but occasionally. The reaction product of microperoxidase was also present in the intercellular space of ova in negligible amount, and likewise on the side of blastocysts' cavity. In comparison with the ingestion of horseradish peroxidase the incidence of microperoxidase in the segmenting rat ova was less frequent.
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Dvořák, M., Trávník, P. Uptake of microperoxidase by segmenting rat ova in vitro. Histochemistry 47, 257–262 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00489967
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