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The effect of four C21-steroids on oocyte maturation in Siberian sturgeon (Acipenser baeri Brandt)

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The effect of four C21-steroids, progesterone (P4), 17,20β-dihydroxy-4-pregnen-3-one (17,20βP), 17,20β,21-trihydroxy-4-pregnen-3-one (20βS) and 11-desoxycortisol (S), on in vitro oocyte maturation in Siberian sturgeon (Acipenser baeri Brandt) females was demonstrated using short-term (5 and 30 min) exposures of ovarian follicles to steroid solutions followed by incubation in steroid-free medium. The study aimed to find out which of the four candidates for a maturationinducing steroid (P4, 17,20βP, 20βS or S) induces a fastest germinal vesicle breakdown (GVBD) in oocytes of Siberian sturgeon. Dissolution of the oocyte nucleus or GVBD was taken as a criterion of oocyte maturation. Dose-response profiles of hormone activities as well as effects of the hormones under short-term exposures of follicles to their equal doses were compared. P4 was found to be a most active GVBD inducer compared to other C21-steroids, S was the second in its activity, whereas 17,20βP and 20βS were less efficient. A comparison of the present and previously obtained data on the dynamics of C21-steroids in vivo and their effect on ovarian follicles in vitro indicates an important role of the above hormones, particularly P4 and 20βS, in the regulation of the final stage of oocyte maturation in sturgeons.

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Original Russian Text © L.V. Bayunova, 2016, published in Zhurnal Evolyutsionnoi Biokhimii i Fiziologii, 2016, Vol. 52, No. 6, pp. 385—392.

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Bayunova, L.V. The effect of four C21-steroids on oocyte maturation in Siberian sturgeon (Acipenser baeri Brandt). J Evol Biochem Phys 52, 431–439 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1134/S123456781606001X

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