체외생산된 소 배반포 및 탈출 배반포강 내의 유리 아미노산 농도를 측정하였다. 체외 배양은 소 혈청알부민이 함유된 합성난관배양액(synthetic oviduct fluid; SOF)에서 실시하였으며 수정 후 180시간의 배반포 및 216시간 후의 탈출 배반포를 실험에 공여하였다 아미노산 측정은 알부민 대신 Polyvinyl alcohol이 함유된 SOF 미소적에 수정란을 분주하고 미세조작기를 이용하여 배반포강 내의 액을 추출하여 20종류의 아미노산을 측

Concentrations of free amino acids in the BF of IVP bovine BL and HBL were examined in this study. The embryos derived from IVF oocytes were cultured in a SOFM containing BSA, EAA and NEAA. BF was aspirated from BL (180 h of age after insemination) and HBL (216 h of age after insemination), and introduced into drops of SOFM (30l/drop) containing PVA through micromanipulation. The medium containing BF was then subjected to measurement of 20 amino acids by an automatic amino acid analyzer. The concentrations of isoleucine, leucine and methionine were higher (p〈0.05) in the BF from HBL than from BL, and no difference was found in aspartate or glutamate concentrations between BL and HBL, while threonine, alanine (p〈0.01) and the rest of the amino acids (p〈0.001) were significantly higher in the BF from HBL than from BL. Cystine was not found in either BL or HBL. A high concentration of glutamine was found in the BF from both BL and HBL, although it was not added to the culture medium. These results indicate that bovine BF contains several EAA (methionine in BL and isoleucine, leucine and methionine in HBL) and NEAA (alanine, glutamate, glycine, proline, serine and aspartate in BL, and glutamate and aspartate in HBL), and there is significant differences in the amino acid concentration in the BF between BL and HBL derived by WP.

• Y. G. Jung