Mounting evidence that oocyte quality profoundly affects fertilisation and subsequent
embryo development drives the continued search for reliable predictors of oocyte …

Extensive evidence suggests that soluble ligands and their receptors mediate human
preimplantation embryo development and implantation. Progress in this complex area has …

The objective of this study was to examine the time during the postfertilization period that
gene expression patterns in in vitro-cultured bovine embryos diverge from those of their in …

Recent data have demonstrated that fast‐cleaving embryos produced in vitro are more likely
to develop to blastocyst stage, and that the postfertilization culture system used impacts …

Insulin-like growth factor I (IGF-I) has been shown to increase the proportion of embryos
forming blastocysts and the number of inner cell mass cells in human and other mammalian …

OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study was to investigate the association between follicular
fluid (FF) levels of insulin-like growth factors (IGFs), IGF binding proteins (IGFBPs), and …

This study evaluated the effect of two oxygen concentrations (20 and 5%) on bovine embryo
development (kinetics of first cleavage and blastocyst development) during maturation (M) …

IGF1 plays an important role in bovine follicular growth, acquisition of oocyte competence
and embryo viability. Current data also indicate a critical role for IGF1 in both the ovarian …

In the present study, correlations between the oocyte messenger RNA (mRNA) stockpile of
Cyclin B, insulin‐like growth factor I (IGF‐I), insulin‐like growth factor (IGF‐II), insulin‐like …

Background In the cow, lysophosphatidic acid (LPA) acts as an auto-/paracrine factor,
through its receptors LPAR1-4, on oocytes and cumulus cells during in vitro maturation …