Successful use of HTF as a basal fertilization medium during SEcuRe mouse in vitro fertilization

Wigger, Magdalena ORCID: 0000-0002-5777-7967, Schneider, Marco, Feldmann, Anni, Assenmacher, Sonja, Zevnik, Branko ORCID: 0000-0001-7845-9522 and Tröder, Simon E. ORCID: 0000-0003-1156-2976 (2023). Successful use of HTF as a basal fertilization medium during SEcuRe mouse in vitro fertilization. BMC Research Notes. Springer Nature. ISSN 1756-0500

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DOI:10.1186/s13104-023-06452-6

Link to the document: https://doi.org/10.1186/s13104-023-06452-6

Abstract

Objective The ever-increasing number of genetically engineered mouse models highlights the need for efficient archiving and distribution of these lines. Sperm cryopreservation has become the preferred technique for the majority of these models due to its low requirement of costs, time, and experimental animals. Yet, current in vitro fertilization (IVF) protocols either exhibit decreased fertilization efficiency for the most popular C57BL/6 strain, as recently demonstrated by us, or require costly and difficult-to-prepare media, respectively. As a result, we previously developed SEcuRe, a modified IVF protocol with low costs and high fertilization efficiency. The popular basal fertilization medium, Cook’s® proprietary “Research vitro fert” (RVF), used in this protocol has recently been discontinued. As a result, the application of the SEcuRe approach and other IVF protocols employing this medium has been severely limited. Results Here we show that human tubal fluid (HTF), a popular and widely available medium with a known composition, can be used as a basal fertilization medium instead of RVF. Comparison of RVF and HTF during 58 independent SEcuRe IVFs with cryopreserved C57BL/6 sperm revealed equal fertilization and live birth rates. In addition, we demonstrate that HTF has a substantially extended shelf-life by utilizing commercial HTF that was six months past its expiration date, yet did not affect fertilization during IVF or subsequent embryo development. This finding not only increases the economic value of our modified method, but also validates it once more. Our results demonstrate that common, shelf-life extended HTF can be used in SEcuRe IVF in place of now-discontinued RVF medium and ensure the applicability of the method, which we since termed SEcuRe 2.0. Our modified SEcuRe 2.0 strategy will assist researchers to efficiently archive and distribute genetically engineered mouse models in a cost-effective, easily adaptable, and 3R-compliant manner with minimal animal use.

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Creators	Email	ORCID	ORCID Put Code
Wigger, Magdalena	UNSPECIFIED	orcid.org/0000-0002-5777-7967	UNSPECIFIED
Schneider, Marco	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Feldmann, Anni	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Assenmacher, Sonja	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Zevnik, Branko	UNSPECIFIED	orcid.org/0000-0001-7845-9522	UNSPECIFIED
Tröder, Simon E.	simon.troeder@uni-koeln.de	orcid.org/0000-0003-1156-2976	UNSPECIFIED