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  • Title: Oxygen consumption by rat oocytes and cumulus cells during induced atresia.
    Author: Magnusson C, Bar Ami S, Braw R, Tsafriri A.
    Journal: J Reprod Fertil; 1983 May; 68(1):97-103. PubMed ID: 6682446.
    Abstract:
    Oxygen consumption was measured in denuded oocytes and oocyte-cumulus complexes isolated from atretic rat follicles. Adult cyclic rats or immature PMSG-treated rats were used, and follicular atresia was induced by hypophysectomy on the morning of pro-oestrus or by repeated pentobarbitone injections beginning on the day of pro-oestrus. The later stages of atresia were accompanied by meiosis-like changes in the oocytes. Oxygen consumption by oocytes that had resumed meiosis (germinal vesicle breakdown, GVB) was higher than in oocytes with an intact germinal vesicle, a change similar to that observed in oocytes maturing in healthy follicles. This may indicate that the meiotic process in the atretic follicles is similar to that in normal ones. Oxygen consumption by the cumulus cells was not altered during pentobarbitone-induced atresia. Hypophysectomy led to a rapid and marked increase in cumulus oxygen consumption in cyclic rats but there was no change in PMSG-treated young animals. Since both pentobarbitone-treatment and hypophysectomy result in follicular atresia, but changes in cumulus respiration occurred only in hypophysectomized adult rats, it is concluded that an increase in cumulus respiration is not inherent to the atretic process.
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