Effects of selection for litter size variability on ovarian folliculogenesis, ovarian cell proliferation, apoptosis, and production of regulatory peptides in rabbits

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Result on the web

<a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1828051X.2024.2396482" target="_blank" >https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1828051X.2024.2396482</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1828051x.2024.2396482" target="_blank" >10.1080/1828051x.2024.2396482</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Effects of selection for litter size variability on ovarian folliculogenesis, ovarian cell proliferation, apoptosis, and production of regulatory peptides in rabbits

Original language description

The present study aimed to identify the novel mechanisms regulating rabbit fecundity. For this purpose, the association between litter size variability, fecundity, ovarian morphology, and markers of roliferation, apoptosis, steroidogenesis, and the presence of regulatory proteinswere examined in ovarian cells from two rabbit lines divergently selected for low (LL) and high (HL) variability in litter size throughout sixteen generations. Ovaries and uteri were isolated frommultiparous non-lactating female rabbits from each line at sixteen generations of selection. One part of the ovary was subjected to histomorphometric analysis of folliculogenesis. From the restof ovary, ovarian granulosa cells (OGCs) were isolated, cultured, and cell viability, proliferation (accumulation of PCNA and of cyclin B1, and BrdU-positive cells), and apoptosis (accumulation of caspase 3, bax and DNA fragmentation) were evaluated by the Trypan blue exclusion test and BrdU, quantitative immunocytochemistry, and cell death detection assays. Furthermore, OGCs were subjected to proteomic analysis by using the nano HPLC-Chip-MS/MS method. The release of progesterone and oestradiol was measured by ELISA. The LL had more than one kit per litter than the HL (7.6 kits vs. 6.5 kits, p�0.05). No differences were found in the diameter of primordial and primary ovarian follicles, theca, and granulosa thickness, but the diameter ofoocytes in the primary and secondary follicles was higher in the LL than in the HL (88.49 mm in the LL vs. 77.86 mm in the HL for oocytes of primary follicles, p�0.05; 122.10 mm in the LL vs.109.87 mm in the HL for oocytes of secondary follicles, p�0.05). Preovulatory follicles were presented only in the ovaries of the LL. The LL had higher incorporation of BrdU and reduced accumulationof bax within OGCs (0.92% in the LL vs. 0.44% in the HL for incorporation of BrdU, p�0.05; 41% in the LL vs. 48% in the HL for accumulation of bax, p�0.05). Ovarian fragments from the LL produced less progesterone and oestradiol than those of the HL (12 ng/mg tissue/day in the LL vs, 45 ng/mg tissue/day in the HL for progesterone, p�0.05; 11 ng/mg tissue/day in the LL vs. 30 ng/mg tissue/day in the HL for oestradiol, p�0.05). Besides, the OGCs from theLL produced a higher number of specific regulatory proteins involved in cell differentiation, proliferation, and adhesion than the HL (50 vs 38, p�0.05). In conclusion, higher prolificacy in the LL line would be caused by: (1) the selection of growing primordial ovarian follicles; (2) better transformation to preovulatory follicles; (3) increased cytoplasmic maturation of oocytes; (4) increased DNA synthesis and decreased cytoplasmic apoptosis in OGCs; (5) changes in ovarian steroidogenesis; and (6) changes in the number of peptides involved in cell differentiation, proliferation, and adhesion.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

40101 - Agriculture

Project

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Continuities

V - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z jinych verejnych zdroju

Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

ITAL J ANIM SCI

ISSN

1594-4077

e-ISSN

1828-051X

Volume of the periodical

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Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

15

Pages from-to

1290-1304

UT code for WoS article

001299684400001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85202734369