Effect of Bovine and Porcine Follicular Fluid and Granulosa Cells on Maturation of Oocytes in vitro1

Abstract

Neither bovine follicular fluid nor granulosa cells affected the completion of the first meiotic division in vitro of bovine oocytes. Porcine follicular fluid also had no effect on maturation of bovine oocytes in vitro. Porcine follicular fluid and granulosa cells did not inhibit maturation of porcine oocytes. The results are discussed in relation to current literature on intrafollicular control of meiosis in oocytes of antral follicles.