Docosahexaenoic acid mechanisms of action on the bovine oocyte-cumulus complex

• Main Authors: Sebastien Elis (Author), Mouhamad Oseikria (Author), Anais Vitorino Carvalho (Author), Priscila Silvana Bertevello (Author), Emilie Corbin (Author), Ana-Paula Te (Author), Jérôme Lecardonnel (Author), Catherine Archilla (Author), Véronique Duranthon (Author), Valérie Labas (Author), Svetlana Uzbekova (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2017-11-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Supplementation of bovine oocyte-cumulus complexes during in vitro maturation (IVM) with 1 μM of docosahexaenoic acid (DHA), C22:6 n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acid, was reported to improve in vitro embryo development. The objective of this paper was to decipher the mechanisms of DH...