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What does limb development begin with?

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The activation of mesenchyme within the somatic layer of lateral mesoderm

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What does the somatic mesoderm form?

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The limb skeleton

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What do somites form?

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The limb musculature

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When do limb buds appear?

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Towards the end of week 4

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How does development of the lower limbs differ from that of the upper limbs?

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It lags about two days behind

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Where do limb buds appear?

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On the ventero-lateral body wall

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What happens to limb buds first?

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They extend ventrally

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What do limb buds consist of?

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A mesenchyme core with a thickened ectoderm at the apex, the apical ectodermal ridge (AER)

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What is mesenchyme?

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Flexible mesoderm

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How does elongation of the limb bud occur?

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Through proliferation of the mesenchyme core

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What is the apical ectodermal ridge critical for?

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Limb bud outgrowth

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What does the AER orchestrate?

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Limb development proximal to distal

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What is the effect of AER on the mesenchyme immediately underlying it?

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It keeps it undifferentiated

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What happens to undifferentiated mesenchyme in the limb buds?

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It proliferates, leading to elongation

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What happens to proximal mesenchyme?

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It begins to differentiate into its constituent tissues as it is too far away from the AER to receive the signals to stay undifferentiated

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What does the AER eventually do?

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Induces the development of the digits within the hand/foot plates and regresses

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What is the zone of polarising activity (ZPA)?

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A signally centre

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Where is the ZPA located?

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At the posterior base of the limb bud

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What is the ZPA responsible for?

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Generation of asymmetry in the limbs
Controls patterning
Maintains the AER

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What does the AER mark?

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The boundary between dorsal and ventral limb ectoderm

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How does dorsoventral patterning occur?

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The ectoderm exerts dorsalising and centralising influences over the mesenchyme core

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What controls the anterior-posterior specification in development of the limbs?

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ZPA

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What controls the proximal-distal specification in development of the limbs?

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AER

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What controls dorsal-ventral specification in development of the limbs?

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Ectoderm

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What are digital rays?
Mesenchyme condensations within plates forming cartilaginous models of the digital bones
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What happens to the AER in digital rays?
It breaks up, and is maintained only over the tips of the digital rays
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What happens to the interdigital spaces of the digital rays?
They are progressively sculpted by apoptosis
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What are the stages in the formation of bones?
Signals from the AER to remain undifferentiated stop Lateral plate mesoderm condenses and differentiates Cartilage model forms Endocondral ossification Primary and secondary ossification centres form
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How are muscles formed in the limbs?
Myogenic precursors migrate into the limbs from the somites and coalesce into two common muscle masses around the newly formed skeletal elements
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What are the two common muscle masses in the developing limb?
Ventral | Dorsal
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What does the ventral muscle mass in the developing limb form?
Flexors
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What does the dorsal muscle mass in the developing limb form?
Extensors
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What happens to the common muscle masses in the developing limbs?
Individual muscles split from the common masses
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How do the extensor and flexor compartments differ in the upper and lower limb?
They are on opposite sides
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What happens as the limbs extend ventrally?
They rotate
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In what direction does the upper limb rotate as it extends?
Laterally- thumb is lateral
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In what direction does the lower limb rotate as it extends?
Medially- big toe is medial
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Where does the upper limb bud appear?
Opposite the caudal cervical spinal segments
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Where does the lower limb bud appear?
Opposite the lumbar and sacral spinal segments
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When do the spinal nerves enter the limb bud?
Early in its development
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What happens if the spinal nerves don't enter the limb bud early in its development?
Without the innervation, development stalls
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What happens to muscles in the developing limb?
They are compartmentalised
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What happens to the compartments of muscles in the developing limb?
Nerves grow into common muscle masses
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What happens to the anterior divisions of nerves for the anterior (ventral) compartment of muscles?
They regroup to form medial and lateral cords of the brachial plexus, and therefore medial and lateral cords supply flexors
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What happens to the posterior divisions of nerves for the posterior (dorsal) compartment of muscles?
They regroup to form the posterior cord, therefore the posterior cord branches supply extensors
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What do nails develop from?
Nail fields on the tips of the fingers
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How do nail fields get to where they need to be?
They migrate onto the dorsal surface, bringing their nerve supply with them
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What is a dermatome?
Strip of skin supplied by single spinal nerve
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What is a myotome?
Muscle/group of muscles supplied by a single spinal nerve
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What is more commonly affected by limb defects, upper or lower?
Upper limb
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Why is the incidence of upper and lower limb defects different?
Because the lag period of two days mean they have different critical periods
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What is the incidence of limb defects?
6 in 10,000 live births
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What causes limb defects?
Usually hereditary | Teratogen defects have been described
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What are the common limb defects?
Amelia | Meromelia
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What is amelia?
Complete absence of a limb
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What is meromelia?
Partial absence of one or more limb structures
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Give an example of meromelia
Phocomelia (phalidomide)
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What are the digit defects?
Syndactole | Polydactyl
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What is syndactole?
Digits fused
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What causes syndactole?
Lack of apoptosis between digits
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What is polydactlyl?
Too many digits

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