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The efficacy of the well of the well (WOW) culture system on development of bovine embryos in a small group and the effect of number of adjacent embryos on their development

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 March 2014

Sung-Sik Kang ,
Sosuke Ofuji ,
Kei Imai ,
Weiping Huang ,
Keisuke Koyama ,
Yojiro Yanagawa ,
Yoshiyuki Takahashi  and
Masashi Nagano
Sung-Sik Kang
Affiliation:
Institute: Laboratory of Theriogenology, Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences, Graduate School of Veterinary Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060–0818, Japan.
Sosuke Ofuji
Affiliation:
Institute: Laboratory of Theriogenology, Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences, Graduate School of Veterinary Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060–0818, Japan.
Kei Imai
Affiliation:
National Livestock Breeding Center, Nishigo, Fukushima 961–8511, Japan.
Weiping Huang
Affiliation:
Institute: Laboratory of Theriogenology, Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences, Graduate School of Veterinary Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060–0818, Japan.
Keisuke Koyama
Affiliation:
Institute: Laboratory of Theriogenology, Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences, Graduate School of Veterinary Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060–0818, Japan.
Yojiro Yanagawa
Affiliation:
Institute: Laboratory of Theriogenology, Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences, Graduate School of Veterinary Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060–0818, Japan.
Yoshiyuki Takahashi
Affiliation:
Institute: Laboratory of Theriogenology, Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences, Graduate School of Veterinary Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060–0818, Japan. Genetics Hokkaido Association, Sapporo 060–0040, Japan.
Masashi Nagano*
Affiliation:
Laboratory of Theriogenology, Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences, Graduate School of Veterinary Medicine, Hokkaido University, Kita-ku Kita 18 Nishi 9, Sapporo 060–0818, Japan.
*
All correspondence to: M. Nagano. Laboratory of Theriogenology, Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences, Graduate School of Veterinary Medicine, Hokkaido University, Kita-ku Kita 18 Nishi 9, Sapporo 060–0818, Japan. Tel:/Fax: +81 11 706 5231. e-mail: mnaga@vetmed.hokudai.ac.jp
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Summary

The aim of the present study was to clarify the efficacy of the well of the well (WOW) culture system for a small number of embryos and the effect of number of adjacent embryos in a WOW dish on blastocyst development. In conventional droplet culture, embryos in the small-number group (5–6 embryos/droplet) showed low blastocyst development compared with a control group (25–26 embryos/droplet). However, small and large numbers of embryos (5–6 and 25 embryos, respectively) in a WOW dish showed no significant differences in cleavage, blastocyst rates, and mean cell number in blastocysts compared with the control group (25–30 embryos/droplet). In addition, the number of adjacent embryos in a WOW dish did not affect the development to blastocysts and cell number in blastocysts. In conclusion, a WOW dish can provide high and stable blastocyst development in small group culture wherever embryos are placed in microwells of the WOW dish.

Keywords

BovineEmbryonic DevelopmentDropletIVCWOW

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Zygote , Volume 23 , Issue 3 , June 2015 , pp. 412 - 415
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2014 

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