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Human Reproduction, Vol. 18, No. 6, 1150-1157, June 2003
© 2003 European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology

A detailed cytogenetic analysis of large numbers of fresh and frozen–thawed human sperm after ICSI into mouse oocytes

Seiji Watanabe

Department of Anatomy, Hirosaki University School of Medicine, 5 Zaifucho, Hirosaki 036–8562, Japan. e-mail: sage{at}cc.hirosaki-u.ac.jp

BACKGROUND: Since information about chromosome aberrations in micro-manipulated sperm is still inadequate, cytogenetic analysis was performed on large numbers of fresh and frozen–thawed (FT) human sperm after injection into mouse oocytes. The effects of the ICSI procedure on oocytes are also discussed based on analysis of the mouse chromosome complements. METHODS: After the injection of fresh and FT human sperm into mouse oocytes, chromosomes of the hybrid oocytes were analysed at first cleavage metaphase. RESULTS: Incidences of the hybrid oocytes at the first cleavage metaphase were significantly different between fresh (71.5%) and FT sperm groups (80.1%) (P < 0.05). The chromosome analysis of 477 fresh and 141 FT sperm showed no difference in the incidences of aneuploidy (1.6/0.7%), structural aberrations (8.8/7.8%) or diploidy (0.0/0.0%) between these categories. The cytogenetic result did not differ from our previous result using IVF between human sperm and hamster oocytes. In an additional cytogenetic study on 615 mouse chromosome complements, the incidence of diploidy (5.4%) was significantly higher than those (0.3–2.8%) in the previous mouse cytogenetic studies, and the hybrid oocytes with no mouse chromosomes (2.0%) existed. CONCLUSIONS: This result suggests that the ICSI procedure induces no sperm chromosome aberrations but increases numerical aberrations in oocyte chromosome complements.

Key words: chromosome aberrations/human sperm/ICSI/mouse oocytes


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