Embryology Flashcards
Three phases of human prenatal development
- Pre-embryonic period –> gametogenesis and fertilization
- Embryonic period –> blastogenesis (1-2) and embryogenesis (3 to 8)
- Fetal period –> fetogenesis (9th week to birth)
Sheaths of oocyte
Plasma membrane with microvilli
Zona Pellucida
Corona Radiata
Zona peullucida
- secreted by follicular cells and oocyte
- composed of glycoprotein, ZP3 is sperm receptor
- for fertilization and implantation
Corona radiata
- follicular cells
- protection, Nutrition and growth Regulation
Sperm parts
Head: haploid nucleus, covered by acrosome
neck: contains pair of centrioles (9x3 centrioles)
tail:
- middle piece: axoneme in Center (central pair and 9 doublets of microtubules), 9 outer dense fibers, sheath of mitochondria
- principal piece: axoneme and 9 outer fibers, fibrous sheath
- end piece: axoneme, no outer fibers
Fertilization phases
Phase I:
Penetration of CR, binding to ZP3
Acrosome reaction:
Plasma membrane of sperm and acrosome fuse
Phase II.
Penetration of ZP
Phase III:
Fusion of oocyte and sperm Plasma membranes
Cortical reaction
Release of cortical granules with Enzymes of oocyte
Zona reaction
Alteration of ZP3, prevents ither sperm binding
Male and female pronuclei form, pronuclei fuse and form zygote
Results of Fertilization
Finishing the secnid meioitc division of oocyte Diploid number of chromosomes Determination of sex Variation of human Initiation of cleavage
Cleavage or segmentation
- part of blastogenesis
- series of mitotic divisions
- cells are blastomeres
Purpose: to generate a mutlicellular embryo
Migration inside uterine tube
- emrbyo is carried passivly by cilia and contraction if tube
- Nutrition: yolk and secretions of tube
- on 3rd day: 16 cell Morula
- two types of blastomeres: inner and outer cell mass
Entering the uterine cavity
- blastocyst Formation: on 4th day
Parts of Blastocyst
1- Trophoblast: flattened outer cell, develops into Chorion and placenta
2- Embryoblast: inner cell mass at one pole, develops into Embryo, Amnion and yolk sac
3- Blastocyst cavity
Blastocyst inside uterus
Migration until 6th day
covered in Zona pellucida
Implantation stages
site: Fundus or corpus of Uterus
- Hatching from blastocyst from the zona pellucida
- Attachment of blastocyst to uterine Endometrium
- Penetration of blastocyst into Endometrium
–> trophoblast differentiates into:
>cytotrophoblasts (inner)
>syncytiotrophoblast (outer) - Embedding of the blastocyst in endometirum and Proliferation of trophoblast
>lacunae appear in STB and maternal blood enters
Penetration is stopped in compact layers
Functions of the STB
- produces Enzymes that erode Endometrium
- resolves the destroyed products
- produes Hormones hCG
- will later form placental barrier
Decidual reaction of endometrium
- Response to Implantation
- Endometrium becomes more succulant and edematous
Decidual cells
- large with Lipids and glycogens
- Nutrition of Embryo, Regulation of development of Embryo, protection of agressive penetration
During Implantation, embryoblast differentiates into two layers
- Epiblast layer
- Hypoblast layer
–> Bilaminar germ Disc
two extraembryonic cavities: Amnion, Yolk sac
Amnion formation
- small Cavity within epiblast -> primitive Amnion
- 11-12th days: primitive Amnion covered by extraembryonic Mesoderm –> definite mesoderm
yolk sac formation
- flat cells of Hypoblast cover Surface of CTB –> primitive yolk sac
- covered by extraembryonic Mesoderm –> definitive yolk sac
Extraembryonic mesoderm
- 12th day: cells derive from primitive yolk sac
- extraembryonic cavity: cavity within the extraembryonic Mesoderm
- lines the trophoblast: froms Chorion
- Embryo remains connected to trophoblast by connecting stalk (forms umbilical cord)
Gastrulation
- start of Embryogensis in 3rd week
- process during which the bilaminar germ Disc develops into a 3 laminar germ Disc
- Ectoderm
- Mesoderm
- Endoderm
beginning of 3rd week
Epiblast is source of all germ layers
Primitive streak: at caudal midline of epiblast, contains primitive groove
Cranial end of primitive streak: primitive node with primitive pit
Invagination/ ingression
- Migration of epiblast cells towards the primitive streak
- enterinf through primitive streak
- detaching from epiblast
- migrating beneath it
Formation of Endoderm
- some invaginated cells invade and displace the hypoblast
Formation of Mesoderm
- invaginated cells between epibalst and newly created endoderm
- cells invaginated in primitive node: definitive notochord
- cells invaginated in primitive streak: paraxial Mesoderm, intermediate Mesoderm, lateral Mesoderm, cardiogenic mesiderm
Trilaminar germ Disc contains of three layers, except:
- Oropharyngeal membrane
2. Cloacal membrane
Derivatives of ectoderm
Neurulation (3-4 weeks) induced by notochord
- Surface ectoderm
- Neuroectoderm (neural tube, neural crest)
Neurulation
neural plate –> neural groove –> neural fold –> neural tube and neural crest
- Fusion Begins in cervical regionand proceeds in borth directions
- cranial and caudal Ends are open until Fusion is complete (anterior and posterior neuropores)
Derivatives of neural tube
CNS
Retina
Neurohpophysis
Epiphysis
Dervatives of neural crest
PNS
Melanocytes
Adrenal medula
Mesenchyme of head
Derivatives of Surface ectoderm
- dermal Epithelium
- hair, nail, Skin Glands
- ectodermal thickenings or placodes in head –> sensory epithelium
Derivatives of mesoderm
- axial Mesoderm (notochord)
- Paraxial Mesoderm (somites)
- Intermediate Mesoderm (nephrotomes)
- Lateral plate Mesoderm (2 layers - parietal and visceral)