title: [The effect of fibroblast growth factors (FGF-2, FGF-4) on the development of parthenogenetic mouse embryos].
abstract: We studied the effects of two growth factors, FGF-2 and FGF-4, on development of diploid parthenogenetic mouse embryos (CBA x C57BL/6)F1. Parthenogenetic embryos were treated with FGF-2 or FGF-4 in vitro at the morula stage and, after they reached the blastocyst stage, transplanted into the uteri of pseudopregnant females. FGF-2 and FGF-4 did not affect the number of blastocysts formed in vitro or implantation into the uterus. However, FGF-2 and FGF-4 at optimal doses decreased the mortality rate of parthenogenetic embryos at the early postimplantation stages and increased twofold the number of embryos that developed in utero to the somite stages: 42 and 36%, respectively, versus 20% in the control. The results obtained suggest that the treatment of parthenogenetic mouse embryos with FGF-2 or FGF-4 modulate the effects of genomic imprinting and prolong the development of parthenogenetic embryos at the postimplantation stages.
authors.affiliation: Vavilov Institute of General Genetics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia.
authors.forename: L I
authors.initials: LI
authors.lastname: Penkov
authors.forename: E S
authors.initials: ES
authors.lastname: Platonov
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001755:Blastocyst; D004171:Diploidy; D004305:Dose-Response Relationship, Drug; D004624:Embryo Transfer; D005314:Embryonic and Fetal Development / Q000187:drug effects*; D005260:Female; D016222:Fibroblast Growth Factor 2 / Q000494:pharmacology*; D051519:Fibroblast Growth Factor 4; D005346:Fibroblast Growth Factors / Q000494:pharmacology*; D008297:Male; D051379:Mice; D008810:Mice, Inbred C57BL; D008808:Mice, Inbred CBA; D010312:Parthenogenesis / Q000187:drug effects*; D011518:Proto-Oncogene Proteins / Q000494:pharmacology*
chemical_list: C496446:Fgf4 protein, mouse; D051519:Fibroblast Growth Factor 4; D011518:Proto-Oncogene Proteins; D016222:Fibroblast Growth Factor 2; D005346:Fibroblast Growth Factors