GENITAL EMBRYOLOGY Flashcards
IN WHICH WEEK IS THE GONADAL CREST FORMED?
7 WEEK
WHAT ID THE GENE FOR FORMING TESTIS
SRY GENE - Y CHROMOSOME
LEYDIG CELLS PRODUCE
TESTOSTERONE
WHERE GONADS COME FROM
MESENCHYME - MOSTLY MESODERM
INTERIM KIDNEY 1 TRIMESTER
MESONEPHROS
WHO RELEASES MULLERIAN INHIBITORY FACTOR - MIF
SERTOLLI CELLS
MESONEPHRIC DUCTS ELONGATE TO FORM
EPIDIDYMIS, DUCTUS DEFERENS, SEMINAL VESICLES, EJACULATORY DUCTS
EPIDEDYMIS
DUCT BEHIND TESTIS
TRANSPORT SPERM FROM SEMINIFEROUS TUBULES TO VAS DEFERENS
DUCTUS DEFERENS - VAS DEFERENS
TRANSPORT SPERM EPIDIDYMIS TO EJACULATORY DUCTS
SEMINAL VESICLES
GLANDS BEHIND BLADDER
SECRETE ABOUT 75% OF FLUID IN SEMEN
GEINTAL DUCT FEMALE
PARAMESONEPHRIC DUCTS FORM INTERNAL STRUCTURE - ONLY OCCURS IN ABSENCE OF MIF AND ANDROGENS
-FALLOPIAN TUBES
-UTERUS
-UPPER 2/3 VAGINA
WHAT IS THE GARTNER”S DUCT
WOLFFIAN / MESONEPHRIC REMNANT IN FAMLES
FOUND ON VAGINAL WALLS
MAY FORM CYST
WHAT FORMS THE UROGENITAL SINUS
MALES - UPPER PORTION - BLADDER
- PELVIC MIDDLE PORTION > PROSTATE AND PROSTATIC URETHRA
- PHALLIC PORTION > PENILE URETHRA
FEMALES - UPPER PORTION - BLADDER
- PELVIC PORTION > INFERIOR VAGINA
- CONNECTS WITH PARAMESONEPHRIC DUCTS