title: [Non invasive assessment of embryo quality: proteomics, metabolomics and oocyte-cumulus dialogue].
abstract: Preimplantation embryo development is one of the key features with implantation itself to achieve a pregnancy. Assisted Reproductive Technologies both in human and animal have improved our knowledge on these events, although it remains elusive to predict embryo potential to give a baby. Among various ways to define embryo viability, noninvasive approaches get a serious advantage linked to the final transfer of the embryo. Techniques devoted to characterize the embryo secretome using proteomic or metabolomic approaches may be non invasive. Based on a direct identification of products of the embryo metabolism or an assessment of profile(s) related with embryo viability, they have greatly improved their sensitivity to allow their use in clinical embryology, once validated. Oocyte-cumulus dialogue, as a key factor for oocyte competence to meiosis and embryo development, was particularly concerned with both genomic and proteomic assessment of cumulus cells. While it is not possible to designate at the time being which among these approaches will be robust and cost-efficient enough to help routinely the clinical embryologist in assisted reproductive techniques (ART), one can predict that our ability to select the "right" embryo will combine morphological criteria already available with validated biomarkers.
authors.affiliation: Service de médecine et biologie de la reproduction, pôle de gynécologie-obstétrique, médecine foetale et reproduction humaine, hôpital Bretonneau, CHRU de Tours, 2, boulevard Tonnellé, 37044 Tours cedex 1, France. royere@med.univ-tours.fr
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Royère
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Feuerstein
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Cadoret
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Puard
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Uzbekova
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Dalbies-Tran
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Teusan
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Houlgatte
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Labas
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Guérif
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D054885:Cumulus Cells / Q000166:cytology / Q000502:physiology; D047108:Embryonic Development / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D005333:Fetus / Q000166:cytology / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D055432:Metabolomics / Q000379:methods*; D009865:Oocytes / Q000166:cytology / Q000502:physiology*; D011247:Pregnancy / Q000502:physiology*; D040901:Proteomics / Q000379:methods*; D027724:Reproductive Techniques, Assisted / Q000706:statistics & numerical data