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STEM CELL REPORTS
Volume 8, Issue 3, Pages 576-588Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.stemcr.2017.01.020
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- NYSCF-Robertson
- Columbia University
- New York Stem Cell Foundation
- Takeda Science Foundation, Japan
- Uehara Memorial Foundation
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Changes in oocyte quality can have great impact on the developmental potential of early embryos. Here we test whether nuclear genome transfer from a developmentally incompetent to a developmentally competent oocyte can restore developmental potential. Using in vitro oocyte aging as a model system we performed nuclear transfer in mouse oocytes at metaphase II or at the first interphase, and observed that development to the blastocyst stage and to term was as efficient as in control embryos. The increased developmental potential is explained primarily by correction of abnormal cytokinesis at anaphase of meiosis and mitosis, by a reduction in chromosome segregation errors, and by normalization of the localization of chromosome passenger complex components survivin and cyclin B1. These observations demonstrate that developmental decline is primarily due to abnormal function of cytoplasmic factors involved in cytokinesis, while the genome remains developmentally fully competent.
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