Abstract
Ghrelin is a gut hormone related to energy balance and reproductive functions. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of ghrelin antagonist D-Lys3-GHRP-6 (GA) as a potential agent that prevents ghrelin effects during bovine oocyte maturation on progesterone production, cumulus cell (CC) viability, CC DNA damage and embryo development and hatching rates. Ghrelin's potential to induce oxidative stress in cumulus-oocyte complexes (COC) was also evaluated. COCs were cultured for 24hr in medium without supplementation (C) or supplemented with 60pM ghrelin (Ghrelin60), Ghrelin60+20pM GA (GA20), Ghrelin60+60pM GA (GA60) or Ghrelin60+100pM GA (GA100) for experiment I. For experiment II, C and Ghrelin60 treatments were used. Differences between C and Ghrelin60 and the linear or quadratic association between GAs on Ghrelin60 were evaluated. Results demonstrated that Ghrelin60 increased progesterone concentration, reduced CC viability, induced CC DNA damage and decreased blastocyst and hatching rate compared with C (p<.05). GA20, GA60 and GA100 had a linear effect on CC genetic damage index (p≤.05) and a quadratic effect on CC viability (p<.01). GA20 counteracted the low hatching rate produced by Ghrelin60. However, GAs did not counteract progesterone concentration and blastocyst rate (p≥.21). GRH60 did not differ from C in the oxidative status (p≥.19). Our study highlights that GA could prevent the negative effects of ghrelin during bovine IVM.
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