Effect of two fertilization medium on the in vitro development of Creole bovine embryos

Abstract

The objective of this study was to evaluate the in vitro embryo production rate up to the blastocyst stage with two fertilization media: FERT-TALP and modified TCM-199, grown in BOEC medium, from oocytes collected by aspiration of follicular ovaries of creole cows obtained from the slaughterhouse. In total, 281 oocytes were collected, 179 for FERT-TALP medium and 144 for modified TCM-199. The oocytes were subjected to the process of maturation, fertilization and embryo culture in vitro. An oocyte cleavage rate of 25.8% was obtained in FERT-TALP and 2.4% in modified TCM-199 at 18 hours post-fertilization. Likewise, at 48h, 87.7% of total cleavage was obtained in FER-TALP and 40.5% in modified TCM-199, whose percentage of embryos with 4 to 8 cells was 64.5 and 26.2%, respectively. In the morula and blastocyst phase, a rate of 10.3 and 3.9% was achieved in FERT-TALP, respectively, while none wwere achieved with the modified TCM-199 medium.