Exam 4 Lesson 23 Gonadal Development Flashcards
The Jost paradigm for sexual differentiation
Chromosomal sex –> Gonadal sex –> phenotypic sex
An XX SRY+ mouse will have what kind of Gonadal development and phenotype?
Testis development and a male phenotype
How does intermediate mesoderm become indifferent gonads?
WT1 and SF-1
How does indifferent Gonads become ovary? Testis?
Ovary –> DAX-1
Testis –> SRY, SOX9
What does DAX-1 inhibit?
SRY and SOX9
What does testis differentiate into?
Sertolli Cells and Leydig cells
What is AMH?
Anti-mullerian hormone
From Sertolli cells to AMH?
WT1 and SF-1
From AMH to Mullerian Duct Regression
AMH-R
From Leydig cells to testosterone?
SF-1
From testosterone to D?
5alpha-R
From testosterone to epididymis, vas deferments and seminal vehicles?
AR
From D to pens, scrotum and prostrate?
AR (androgen receptor)
D
dihydrotestosterone
5alphaR
5 alpha reductase
What is SRY? What is it responsible for?
A sex determination gene on Y chromosome. Responsible for male differentiation.
What does DAX-1 support?
Female characteristics
What is FOXL2 gene responsible for?
Ovary development and maintenance
What is visible in genital system at five weeks?
Primordial germ cells, gut endoderm, urogenital ridges, pronephros, aorta, notochord, neural tube
What is visible in genital system at six weeks?
wolffian duct, mnullerian duct and indifferent gonad
What differentiates in the male genital system?
seminiferous tumbles differentiate and show spermatogonia and Sertoli cells. The steroidogenic Leydic cells appear between the tumbles and the Mullerian duct regresses.
What differentiates in the female genital system?
Primordial follicles consisting of an oocyte and flattened surrounding cells appear and the Wolffian duct regresses.l
When are both Wolffian and Mullerian ducts present?
In the indifferent stage
What happens during the differentiation of the female genital ducts?
In the absence of testicular hormones, the Mullerian ducts develop into the Fallopian tubes, the uterus and the upper section of the vagina. The Wolffian duct regresses.
What happens during the differentiation of the male genital ducts?
Testosterone virilizes the Wolffian ducts to form the rate test is, epididymis, vas deferments and seminal vehicle. In addition, due ot the secretion of anti-Mullerian hormone from the Sertoli cells, the Mullerian ducts regress.
What is the embryonic genital ridge?
Formation of primitive sex cords from migrating primordial germ cells and mesoderm
What makes up the embryonic genital ridge?
The aorta feeds into Mesonephric duct (Wolff). Under the mesonephric duct is the paramesonephric duct (Müller). At the other end are the primordial germ cells, under the aorta globe. In the middle are the primitive sex cords and the proliferating coelomic epithelium.
What ducts are present when testes develop?
Both. Paramesonephric duct (Mullerian) will degenerate.
How do testes develop?
The mesonephric tubule turns into the ductus deferments with excretory mesoneophric tubule. The coelomic epithelium and primitive sex cords turn into the horseshoe shapes testis cords and the tunica albuginea and the rate testis cords
What develops in later stage of testes development?
The excretory mesonephric tubule become epigenital and paragenital tubule. THe paramesonephric tubercle develops.
What is the genital tubercle?
It is the bipotential primordium that forms in front of the urogenital slit.
What must be absent for female genitalia to develop?
5alpha-dihydrotestosterone
What develops in the absence of 5alpha-dihydrotestosterone?
A clitoris develops from the genital tubercle, as well as labioscrotal dwellings that become the labia majors and labia minors.