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2 - Cell & Extracellular Matrix Flashcards

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Three key elements for regenerative medicine

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  • Genes control the program of cell differentiation and proliferation
  • Cells produce various matrix
  • Matrix served as scaffold for cell growth/differentiation
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Gastrulation

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  • Process of formation of intra embryonic mesoderm
  • Starts at 14 days after fertilisation
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Extra-cellular matrix

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Cell derived ECM partially recapitulates the complete biological machinery of native tissue

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Application of ECM

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  • Recreation of cellular niches
  • Stem cell niche
  • Tissue specific niches
  • Engineering ECM in disease (e.g. tumour microenvironment)
  • Engineering and characterisation of CD-ECM to student ECM Physiology
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Embryonic ectoderm

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Epidermis, nervous system, retina of the eye, etc

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Embryonic endoderm

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Endothelial linings

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Embryonic mesoderm

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  • Smooth muscular coats
  • Connective tissues
  • Vessels
  • Cardiovascular system
  • Blood
  • Bone marrow
  • Reproductive and excretory organs.
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Organ-genetic period of embryonic development

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  • 3rd week (5 weeks after the first day of last normal menstrual period)
  • 4 phases : growth, morphogenesis, differentiation, maturation.
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Morphogenesis

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Complex interaction occurring in an order sequence, cell movement and cell transformation (EMT, MET) and program cell death.

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Development of skin

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  • 4 to 5 weeks
  • Epidermis (Derived from surface ectoderm)
  • Dermis (derived from mesoderm)
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Development of cartilage after 5 weeks

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Paraxial mesoderm –> Somites –> Condensation of mesenchymal cells –> Chondrification centres –> chondroblasts

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Three types of chondroblasts

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  • Hyaline
  • Fibro
  • Elastic
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Development of bone

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Membrane sheath –> Condensation of mesenchymal cells –> Vascularisation –> Osteoid matrix deposition

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Development of skeletal muscle

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  • Seven weeks
  • Myotome regions of the somites (mesoderm)
  • Mesenchymal cells
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Developmental of smooth muscle

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  • Somatic mesoderm (vessels smooth muscle)
  • Mesenchymal cells (myoepithelial cells in glands)
  • Splanchnic mesenchyme (around endoderm, other smooth muscle)
  • Remain mononuclear
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Development of cardiac muscle

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  • 4 weeks
  • Lateral splanchnic mesoderm
  • Cardiac muscle fibers arise form single cells
17
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Development of PNS

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  • Neural crest cells
  • Cranial, spinal visceral nerves and cranial, spinal and autonomic ganglia
  • Bipolar of sensory cells
  • Satellite cells
  • Schwann cells
  • Connective tissue outside the capsule.
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Stem cell niche

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Refers to a microenvironment, within the
specific anatomic location where stem cells are found, which interacts with stem cells to regulate cell fate.

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Epithelial mesenchymal transformation (EMT)

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  • Neural crest
  • Cardiac cushion cells
  • Midline cells of the palate
  • Dermis of the skin
  • Limb musculature
  • Sclerofome
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Mesenchymal Epithelial transformation (MET)

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  • Kidney tubules
  • Nephrogenic blastema
  • Endocardium
  • Somities
21
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Matrix proteins

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  • Fibrous structural proteins
  • Specialised proteins
  • Proteoglycans
  • Matrix degrading enzymes
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Fibrous structural proteins

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Collagen, laminis, fibronectin, vitronectin and elastin.

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Specialised proteins

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Growth factors, small matricellular proteins, small integrin binding glycoproteins

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Matrix degrading enzymes

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MMP, serine protease, cysterine protease

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5 pathways that determine cell transformation

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  • Growth factors
  • TGF beta
  • B - catenin
  • Integrins
  • Inflammation / NFkB
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Cell - ECM interactions

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Integrins and receptors

27
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Cell - Cell interactions

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Eph/ephrin family

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What is tissue morphogenesis dependent on

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Changes in either cell shape or oriented cell division and relies on cells exchanging their neighbours

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Essential components for engineering of regenerative medicine

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Gene, Cell and Matrix

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Function of Bone morphogenetic proteins (BMPs)

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  • Binds to heparitin sulfate, heparin, type IV Collagen
  • Regulates maturation, differentiation, ECM production
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Functions of cadherin

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Mediate homophilic interaction during EMT/MET

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Three types of cadherin

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  • N-Cadherin
  • E-Cadherin
  • Cadherin’s partner
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N-Cadherin

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  • Ill-formed somites
  • Abnormal neural tubes
  • Loosely organised myocardium
  • No EMT
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E-Cadherin

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  • MET
  • Trophectoderm fail to form
35
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Cadherins partner

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Catenins (αβ) via phosphorylation

36
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Integrins as ECM receptors

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Heterodimeric trans membrane protein αβ subunits.

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