Non-Invasive Human Embryo Metabolic Assessment As a Developmental Criterion

Overview

Journal J Clin Med

Specialty General Medicine

Date 2020 Dec 23

PMID 33353110

Citations 6

Authors

Marjan Motiei

Katerina Vaculikova

Andrea Cela

Katerina Tvrdonova

Reza Khalili

David Rumpik

Tatana Rumpikova

Zdenek Glatz

Tomas Saha

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Abstract

The selection of a highly-viable single embryo in assisted reproductive technology requires an acceptable predictive method in order to reduce the multiple pregnancy rate and increase the success rate. In this study, the metabolomic profiling of growing and impaired embryos was assessed on the fifth day of fertilization using capillary electrophoresis in order to find a relationship between the profiling and embryo development, and then to provide a mechanistic insight into the appearance/depletion of the metabolites. This unique qualitative technique exhibited the appearance of most non-essential amino acids and lactate, and depleting the serine, alanyl-glutamine and pyruvate in such a manner that the embryos impaired in their development secreted a considerably higher level of lactate and consumed a significantly higher amount of alanyl-glutamine. The different significant ratios of metabolomic depletion/appearance between the embryos confirm their potential for the improvement of the prospective selection of the developed single embryos, and also suggest the fact that pyruvate and alanyl-glutamine are the most critical ATP suppliers on the fifth day of blastocyst development.

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