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Journal Article Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't Epublish 6 citations

PubMed: 36421701 DOI: 10.3390/biom12111687

Small Non-Coding RNAs as New Biomarkers to Evaluate the Quality of the Embryo in the IVF Process.

Biomolecules 12(11)

Authors: Silvia Toporcerová, Ivana Špaková, Katarína Šoltys, Zuzana Klepcová, Marek Kľoc, Júlia Bohošová, Karolína Trachtová, Lucia Peterová, Helena Mičková, Peter Urdzík, Mária Mareková, Ondřej Slabý, Miroslava Rabajdová

Affiliations

  • Department of Gynaecology and Obstetrics, Faculty of Medicine, Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice, 040 11 Košice, Slovakia.
  • Gyncare a.s. 040 13 Košice, Slovakia.
  • Department of Medical and Clinical Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice, 040 11 Košice, Slovakia.
  • Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University in Bratislava, 842 15 Bratislava, Slovakia.
  • SAFTRA-BioMAI, Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice, 040 11 Košice, Slovakia.
  • Central European Institute of Technology, Masaryk University, 601 77 Brno, Czech Republic.
  • Department of Medical Biology, Faculty of Medicine, Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice, 040 11 Košice, Slovakia.

Abstract

The increased interest in assisted reproduction through in vitro fertilization (IVF) leads to an urgent need to identify biomarkers that reliably highly predict the success of pregnancy. Despite advances in diagnostics, treatment, and IVF approaches, the 30% success rate of IVF seems insurmountable. Idiopathic infertility does not have any explanation for IVF failure especially when a patient is treated with a healthy competitive embryo capable of implantation and development. Since appropriate intercellular communication is essential after embryo implantation, the emergence of the investigation of embryonic secretome including short non-coding RNA (sncRNA) molecules is crucial. That's why biomarker identification, sncRNAs secreted during the IVF process into the blastocyst's cultivation medium, by the implementation of artificial intelligence opens the door to a better understanding of the bidirectional communication between embryonic cells and the endometrium and so the success of the IVF. This study presents a set of promising new sncRNAs which are revealed to predictively distinguish a high-quality embryo, suitable for an embryo transfer in the IVF process, from a low-quality embryo with 86% accuracy. The identified exact combination of miRNAs/piRNAs as a non-invasively obtained biomarker for quality embryo determination, increasing the likelihood of implantation and the success of pregnancy after an embryo transfer.

MeSH

Rna, Small Untranslated, Pregnancy, Communication, Biomarkers, Embryo Transfer

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