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In vitro formation of holes on the inner perivitelline layer of quail ovum by chicken spermatozoa
Author(s) -
WIN Mar Mar,
MIYAGI Yuki,
ASHIZAWA Koji,
TATEMOTO Hideki,
NAKADA Tadashi
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
animal science journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.606
H-Index - 38
eISSN - 1740-0929
pISSN - 1344-3941
DOI - 10.1111/j.1740-0929.2005.00248.x
Subject(s) - quail , sperm , semen , biology , andrology , human fertilization , perivitelline space , incubation , chemistry , anatomy , microbiology and biotechnology , endocrinology , embryo , zona pellucida , oocyte , genetics , biochemistry , medicine
The aim of the present study was to examine whether chicken semen can be substituted for quail semen to conduct in vitro experiments on fertilization. Chicken spermatozoa was incubated with the inner perivitelline layer (IPL) isolated from the largest follicle in the quail ovary under in vitro conditions. The perforation of chicken and quail spermatozoa were assessed by counting the number of all visible holes in the pieces of IPL. No difference was found in the number of holes formed by the chicken sperm and quail IPL interaction compared with that between intraspecies. In addition, the number of holes in the IPL was significantly increased with the increase in sperm concentration from 1 × 10 6 to 8 × 10 6 sperm/mL ( P < 0.05). Interestingly, after treatment of chicken spermatozoa with 2.5 mg/mL of the solubilized quail IPL followed by incubation with the intact chicken IPL, the number of holes in the intact chicken IPL was significantly decreased as compared with that of spermatozoa treated without the solubilized IPL ( P < 0.05). This indicates that sperm receptors in the solubilized quail IPL and binding ligands on the chicken spermatozoa would find each other and bind, forming complexes and these complexes blocked the interaction between chicken spermatozoa and intact chicken IPL. These results show that: (i) chicken spermatozoa possess the penetrability into quail IPL; and (ii) a high degree of affinity via the receptor interactions exists between chicken spermatozoa and quail IPL. Therefore, it appears that the substitution of chicken semen for quail semen is possible to use as an in vitro technique to examine the sperm‐IPL interaction during fertilization in quail.