Cellular stress responses in oocytes: Molecular changes and clinical implications

WFA Marei, JLMR Leroy - … Biology and Translational Medicine, Volume 16 …, 2021 - Springer
… by which oocytes can sense and respond to stress are not … due to lipotoxicity, oxidative
stress, and heat stress on oocyte … mechanisms in whole cumulus-oocyte complexes (COCs) can …

Risks of using mitoquinone during in vitro maturation and its potential protective effects against lipotoxicity-induced oocyte mitochondrial stress

WFA Marei, O Mohey-Elsaeed, I Pintelon… - Journal of Assisted …, 2024 - Springer
… protein responses and redox regulation increase in these oocytes [18]. In this model, alteration
in … Collection of bovine cumulus oocyte complexes (COCs) from slaughterhouse ovaries …

Oocyte maturation under lipotoxic conditions induces carryover transcriptomic and functional alterations during post-hatching development of good-quality blastocysts …

KLJ Desmet, WFA Marei, C Richard… - Human …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
… SUMMARY ANSWER Surviving, morphologically normal blastocysts derived from bovine
oocytes that matured under lipotoxic conditions exhibit long-lasting cellular dysfunction at the …

Metabolic exchanges between the oocyte and its environment: focus on lipids

S Uzbekova, PS Bertevello… - Reproduction …, 2021 - CSIRO Publishing
oocyte in phospholipids and cholesterol during maturation, and significant changes of FA
composition and related pathways in response to lipid modulators endorse the role of oocyte

Metabolism of fatty acids in follicular cells, oocytes, and blastocysts

M Shi, MA Sirard - Reproduction and Fertility, 2022 - raf.bioscientifica.com
… and cumulus cells respond and cooperate with oocytes when … Compared to immature
cumulus–oocyte complexes (COCs), … in cells and decrease the lipotoxicity of NEFA to the oocyte. …

Effect of lipotoxicity on mitochondrial function and epigenetic programming during bovine in vitro embryo production

B Meulders, WFA Marei, I Xhonneux, PEJ Bols… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
… This may imply that MT biogenesis is stimulated, mostly as a response to MT damage. …
Bovine cumulus-oocyte complexes and embryos were exposed to control (CONT), solvent …

Role of lipid metabolism and signaling in mammalian oocyte maturation, quality, and acquisition of competence

R Khan, X Jiang, U Hameed, Q Shi - Frontiers in cell and …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
oocyte developmental competence. These cells are physically and metabolically linked with
an oocyte and form the cumulus-oocyte complex … in cell behavior and response. It is the part …

Homeostatic regulation of lipid droplet content in mammalian oocytes and embryos

M Ibayashi, R Aizawa, J Mitsui, S Tsukamoto - Reproduction, 2021 - rep.bioscientifica.com
… This suggests that ED is maintained by complex molecular mechanisms in response to
metabolic changes (eg amino acid concentration and composition of the uterine fluid). …

Obesity and oocyte quality: significant implications for ART and emerging mechanistic insights

MB Gonzalez, RL Robker, RD Rose - Biology of reproduction, 2022 - academic.oup.com
… be mainly caused by lipotoxicity responses that promote ER … in ovarian follicular cells
which critically support the oocyte. … function, lipotoxicity in the cumulus oocyte complex is …

High-fat diet leads to elevated lipid accumulation and endoplasmic reticulum stress in oocytes, causing poor embryo development

A Rao, A Satheesh, G Nayak, PS Poojary… - Reproduction …, 2020 - CSIRO Publishing
… , oxidative stress and ER stress responses in mouse oocytes and their effects on early …
Oviducts were collected from superovulated mice and oocyte–cumulus complexes (COCs) …