Developmental Abilities of Rat and Mouse Pronuclear Eggs Following Interspecific Nuclear or Cytoplasmic Transplantation

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Homologous and heterologous replacement of a small amount of cytoplasm or both pronuclei were performed in rat and mouse pronuclear eggs. Rat eggs after receiving rat or mouse cytoplast never developed beyond the 2-cell stage <I>in vitro</I>. On the other hand, the in-vitro development of mouse eggs that received rat cytoplasm was possible, but it was greatly inhibited compared with those that received mouse cytoplasm. None of enucleated rat eggs that received rat or mouse pronuclei also developed beyond the 2-cell stage. Although few enucleated mouse eggs after receiving rat pronuclei developed beyond the 2-cell stage, high proportion (64%) of those that received mouse pronuclei could develop to blastocysts <I>in vitro</I>. When 2-cell embryos obtained 18 h after fusing with donor karyoplast were transferred to pseudopregnant rats, 2 (9%) of 23 enucleated rat embryos and 1 (7%) of 15 enucleated mouse embryos each fused with heterologous karyoplast developed to early blastocyst 48-55 h after transfer. These results may indicate that the embryonic genome can be activated in the heterospecific cytoplasm.
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