The literature on the relationship between diet and human fertility has greatly expanded over
the last decade, resulting in the identification of a few clear patterns. Intake of supplemental …

Nutrition is of fundamental importance in reproductive function of female beef cattle. Nutrition
determines live weight (LW) and body condition score (BCs) and both were found more than …

Metabolism and ATP levels within the oocyte and adjacent cumulus cells are associated
with quality of oocyte and optimal development of a healthy embryo. Lipid metabolism …

Preservation of female genetics is currently done primarily by means of oocyte and embryo
cryopreservation. The field has seen much progress during its four-decade history, progress …

Oocyte and embryo metabolism are closely linked with their subsequent developmental
capacity. Lipids are a potent source of cellular energy, yet little is known about lipid …

This review considers how our understanding of preimplantation embryo metabolism has
progressed since the pioneering work on this topic in the late 1960s and early 1970s …

Lipids are indispensable for energy storage, membrane structure and cell signalling.
However, dynamic changes in various categories of endogenous lipids in mammalian early …

STUDY QUESTION Is the developmental timing and metabolic regulation disrupted in
embryos from overweight or obese women? SUMMARY ANSWER Oocytes from overweight …

Mobilization of fatty acids from adipose tissue during metabolic stress will increase the
amount of free fatty acids in blood and follicular fluid and, thus, may affect oocyte quality. In …

In this essay, we propose that embryos express a metabolic phenotype necessarily different
from that of differentiated somatic cells and more like that of rapidly proliferating cancer cells …