Menjivar Nico G, Gad Ahmed, Gebremedhn Samuel, Ghosh Soham, Tesfaye Dawit
Animal Reproduction and Biotechnology Laboratory (ARBL), Department of Biomedical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States.
Department of Animal Production, Faculty of Agriculture, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt.
Front Cell Dev Biol. 2023 Apr 6;11:1142629. doi: 10.3389/fcell.2023.1142629. eCollection 2023.
Climate change-induced global warming results in rises in body temperatures above normal physiological levels (hyperthermia) with negative impacts on reproductive function in dairy and beef animals. Extracellular vesicles (EVs), commonly described as nano-sized, lipid-enclosed complexes, harnessed with a plethora of bioactive cargoes (RNAs, proteins, and lipids), are crucial to regulating processes like folliculogenesis and the initiation of different signaling pathways. The beneficial role of follicular fluid-derived EVs in inducing thermotolerance to oocytes during maturation (IVM) has been evidenced. Here we aimed to determine the capacity of cultured granulosa cell-derived EVs (GC-EVs) to modulate bovine oocytes' thermotolerance to heat stress (HS) during IVM. Moreover, this study tested the hypothesis that EVs released from thermally stressed GCs (S-EVs) shuttle protective messages to provide protection against subsequent HS in bovine oocytes. For this, sub-populations of GC-EVs were generated from GCs subjected to 38.5°C (N-EVs) or 42°C (S-EVs) and supplemented to cumulus-oocyte complexes (COCs) matured at the normal physiological body temperature of the cow (38.5°C) or HS (41°C) conditions. Results indicate that S-EVs improve the survival of oocytes by reducing ROS accumulation, improving mitochondrial function, and suppressing the expression of stress-associated genes thereby reducing the severity of HS on oocytes. Moreover, our findings indicate a carryover impact from the addition of GC-EVs during oocyte maturation in the development to the blastocyst stage with enhanced viability.
气候变化导致的全球变暖使体温升高至正常生理水平以上(热应激),对奶牛和肉牛的繁殖功能产生负面影响。细胞外囊泡(EVs)通常被描述为纳米大小、脂质包裹的复合物,携带着大量生物活性物质(RNA、蛋白质和脂质),对调节卵泡发生和不同信号通路的启动等过程至关重要。卵泡液来源的EVs在卵母细胞成熟(IVM)过程中诱导耐热性方面的有益作用已得到证实。在这里,我们旨在确定培养的颗粒细胞来源的EVs(GC-EVs)在IVM过程中调节牛卵母细胞对热应激(HS)的耐热性的能力。此外,本研究检验了一个假设,即热应激颗粒细胞释放的EVs(S-EVs)传递保护性信息,以保护牛卵母细胞免受随后的HS影响。为此,从置于38.5°C(N-EVs)或42°C(S-EVs)的颗粒细胞中产生GC-EV亚群,并添加到在奶牛正常生理体温(38.5°C)或HS(41°C)条件下成熟的卵丘-卵母细胞复合体(COCs)中。结果表明,S-EVs通过减少活性氧积累、改善线粒体功能和抑制应激相关基因的表达,提高了卵母细胞的存活率,从而降低了HS对卵母细胞的严重程度。此外,我们的研究结果表明,在卵母细胞成熟过程中添加GC-EVs对发育到囊胚阶段具有延续影响,且活力增强。
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