title: [Intracellular free calcium changes of mouse oocytes during activation induced by ethanol or electrical stimulations and parthenogenetic development].
abstract: Oocytes collected 18-19 h after HCG injection were stimulated with 7-8% ethanol or electrical pulses (1.7 KV/cm field strength, 80-100 microseconds duration, 3-4 times, 5-6 min interval). The parthenogenetic embryos derived from the above-mentioned methods developed to blastocyst stage just like those developed from fertilized eggs. Mouse oocytes were rather sensitive to ethanol stimulation. More than 95% of the treated oocytes were activated after stimulation of 7-8% ethanol for 5 min. Multiple electrical stimulations induced higher activation percentages of oocytes than only single electrical stimulation (71.5% vs. 63.6%). Intact oocytes were loaded with fluorescent Ca2+ indicator fura-2 and intracellular free calcium changes during artificial activation were measured by fluorescence detector. The results showed that ethanol could induce repetitive transient Ca2+ concentration increase in activated oocytes. Single electrical stimulation only induced single free calcium concentration elevation in oocyte while multiple electrical pulses could induce repetitive Ca2+ increase (each electrical pulse elicited the corresponding Ca2+ concentration peak). The pronuclei were not observed in the oocytes which had not exhibited calcium concentration rise during activation. Apart from electrical stimulation parameter, sufficient amount of Ca2+ in electric medium was crucial to mouse oocyte activation when stimulated with electrical pulses. The oocytes were hardly activated by electrical stimulations in a medium without Ca2+ even with longer pulse duration and the intracellular free calcium concentration in the oocytes showed no elevation. This indicates that the inflow of extracellular Ca2+ from tiny pores across the oocyte membrane caused by electrical stimulation is the main source of intracellular free calcium increase.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
authors: Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Science, Nanjing.
authors: M Q
authors: MQ
authors: Deng
authors: B Q
authors: BQ
authors: Fan
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002118:Calcium / Q000378:metabolism*; D004558:Electric Stimulation; D000431:Ethanol / Q000494:pharmacology*; D005260:Female; D051379:Mice; D009865:Oocytes / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000502:physiology; D010312:Parthenogenesis / Q000187:drug effects*
chemical_list: D000431:Ethanol; D002118:Calcium