Female Fertility, Environmental Agents and Stress Oxidant
- Conditions
- Female Infertility
- Interventions
- Other: Blood sampleOther: Urine sampleOther: Follicular fluid and granulosa cells sample
- Registration Number
- NCT04866329
- Lead Sponsor
- University Hospital, Tours
- Brief Summary
Synthetic products used in industrial, pharmaceutical, agro-alimentary or agricultural fields are found in our environment. Thus, humans could be simultaneously exposed to several of these pollutants. Furthermore, these environmental agents exert or could exert adverse actions on fertility, by altering gamete and embryo quality through endocrine disruptor effects or through increase in oxidative stress in gonads (cellular pathway known to be involved in several human reproductive pathologies).
In this context, the objectives of the present project are to obtain descriptive and analytical data on woman and oocyte exposure to several environmental agents (bisphenols, ethynylestradiol and glyphosate). The relation between these pollutant measures in follicular fluid and urine (from women receiving follow-up of in vitro fertilization (IVF) protocol in the University hospital of Tours, France) and the oocyte quality, the IVF and pregnancy successes will be studied. Several oxidative stress biomarkers in blood and follicular fluid will be also measured for these women, who will complete a questionnaire on their lifestyles. Finally, thanks to in vitro approaches, the effects and the mechanisms of action (including oxidative stress) of these pollutants (alone or in cocktails) will be studied on granulosa cells from these patients.
- Detailed Description
After being informed about the project Fertenox during a meeting describing about the Fecondation In Vitro protocol, all women patients not opposing to participate in the study and to use individual information will be included in the research during the usual bacteriological exam performed 1-2 months before oocyte pick up in the University hospital. They will receive the questionnaire on their lifestyle during this exam.
On the eve of the oocyte pick up (at the end of ovarian stimulation) during the usual blood collection, three additional tubes of blood will be collected for each patient in the University hospital. Women will also receive the screw-top container for morning-after urine sample and the completion of the lifestyle questionnaire will be checked (some advices will be done if necessary to help patients to fill out the questionnaire). Samples will be treated, aliquoted and stored according to requirements the same day.
The day of the oocyte pick up, the first morning urine will be collected by patients at home (or otherwise in the hospital). The completed questionnaire will be recovered and follicular fluid and granulosa cells will be collected for each woman. Samples will be aliquoted and stored according to requirements the same day. Granulosa cells will be cultured for in vitro approaches in research labs the same day.
Tubes of blood, urine and follicular fluid will be coded and kept at -80°C in the University hospital until their shipment to laboratories, where analyses of pollutants (bisphenols, ethynylestradiol and glyphosate) and analyses of oxidative stress biomarkers (antioxidant vitamins, FRAP), activity of several enzymes (catalase, superoxide dismutase, glutathione peroxidase) and oxidized lipids) will be performed.
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- RECRUITING
- Sex
- Female
- Target Recruitment
- 500
- Woman aged 18 to 43 years old
- First oocyte puncture (IVF rank = 1)
- Opposition to data processing
- IVF rank equal or greater than 2
- Egg donation
- Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection with testicular biopsy
- Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection with self-preservation straw
- Sperm donation
Study & Design
- Study Type
- OBSERVATIONAL
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Arm && Interventions
Group Intervention Description In Vitro Fertilisation protocol Blood sample Women followed in the department for an in vitro fertilisation protocol In Vitro Fertilisation protocol Follicular fluid and granulosa cells sample Women followed in the department for an in vitro fertilisation protocol In Vitro Fertilisation protocol Urine sample Women followed in the department for an in vitro fertilisation protocol
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Presence or absence of glyphosate in urine baseline Assessed by measure of glyphosate in urine by Liquid Chromatography coupled to tandem Mass Spectrometry (LC-MS/MS)
Concentration of ethinylestradiol in follicular fluid baseline Assessed by concentration of ethinylestradiol in follicular fluid by Liquid Chromatography coupled to tandem Mass Spectrometry (LC-MS/MS)
Concentration of glyphosate in follicular fluid baseline Assessed by concentration of glyphosate in follicular fluid by Liquid Chromatography coupled to tandem Mass Spectrometry (LC-MS/MS)
Presence or absence of ethinylestradiol in urine Baseline Assessed by measure of ethinylestradiol in urine by Liquid Chromatography coupled to tandem Mass Spectrometry (LC-MS/MS)
Presence or absence of bisphenols in follicular fluid Baseline Assessed by measure of bisphenols in follicular fluid by Liquid Chromatography coupled to tandem Mass Spectrometry (LC-MS/MS)
Presence or absence of bisphenols in urine Baseline Assessed by measure of bisphenols in urine by Liquid Chromatography coupled to tandem Mass Spectrometry (LC-MS/MS)
Presence or absence of glyphosate in follicular fluid baseline Assessed by measure of glyphosate in follicular fluid by Liquid Chromatography coupled to tandem Mass Spectrometry (LC-MS/MS)
Concentration of bisphenols in follicular fluid baseline Assessed by concentration of bisphenols in follicular fluid by Liquid Chromatography coupled to tandem Mass Spectrometry (LC-MS/MS)
Presence or absence of ethinylestradiol in follicular fluid Baseline Assessed by measure of ethinylestradiol in follicular fluid by Liquid Chromatography coupled to tandem Mass Spectrometry (LC-MS/MS)
Concentration of ethinylestradiol in urine baseline Assessed by concentration of ethinylestradiol in urine by Liquid Chromatography coupled to tandem Mass Spectrometry (LC-MS/MS)
Concentration of bisphenols in urine baseline Assessed by concentration of bisphenols in urine by Liquid Chromatography coupled to tandem Mass Spectrometry (LC-MS/MS)
Concentration of glyphosate in urine baseline Assessed by concentration of glyphosate in urine by Liquid Chromatography coupled to tandem Mass Spectrometry (LC-MS/MS)
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Embryo quality Day 2 and day 5/6 after oocyte pick up Assessed by in vitro early embryo developmental competence of each punctured oocyte (Day 2 embryo morphology, ability to reach the blastocyst stage, Day 5/6 blastocyst morphology, blastocyst outcome (transfer, freezing, discarding)
Oxidative stress biomarkers in blood On the eve of baseline Assessed by measure of activities of glutathione peroxidase, catalase and superoxide dismutase in red blood cells by UV and visible spectrophometry
Information on woman lifestyles The 3 last months of lifestyles before baseline Assessed by a questionnaire on sociodemographic characteristics, smoking, physical activity, professional and environmental expositions, consumption of dietary supplements (antioxidants), consumption of drinks (tap water, from plastic bottle, cans...), food reheating habit, consumption of food from tin box, use of hygiene and cosmetic products...
Oxidative stress biomarkers in follicular fluid Baseline Assessed by measure of glutathione peroxidase activity by spectrophometry
Oocyte quality baseline Assessed by nuclear maturity of each collected punctured oocyte
Embryo implantation success (pregnancy success) From day 7 after embryo transfer for beta hCG assay, at 8 weeks of amenorrhea for foetus cardiac activity and after birth Assessed by confirmation of a clinical pregnancy (blood beta human chorionic gonadotropin assay: \> 1000 Unity Intenational /L), by confirmation of on-going pregnancy (ultrasound measure of foetus cardiac activity) and by confirmation delivery of live and healthy birth
Oxidative stress biomarkers in urine baseline Assessed by measure of oxidized lipids (isoprostanoids) by LC-MS/MS
Pollutant effects on patient granulosa cells in vitro after 6h of exposure Assessed on gene expression (RNAseq and qRT-PCR) of signaling pathways
Trial Locations
- Locations (1)
Department of Reproductive Medicine and Biology, Univesity Hospital, Tours
🇫🇷Tours, France