Mechanisms Of Disease During Embryogenesis Flashcards
What are the two main periods of human development?
Embryonic and fetal
When is the embryonic period and what happens in it?
Fertilisation -> week 8
When most of the organogenesis happens
When is the fetal period and what happens in it?
Week 8-> birth
Growth and modelling of organs
When does cleavage happen?
When zygote is moving from the site of fertilisation to the uterus
What is another name for the 16-cell zygote?
Morula
What is compaction?
The trophoblast secretes fluid inside, forming a blastocoele that pushes the inner cell mass to one side
-> inner cell mass splits into the hypoblast and the epiblast
In the morula, which cells are polar and what are their poles called?
Trophoblast cells have an apical and a basolateral surface
Inner cell mass are apolar
What is the blastocoele?
Fluid filled space secreted by trophoblast
What is the blastocyst?
Thing formed when the trophoblast has secreted the blastocoele and pushed the inner cell mass to the side
What does the inner cell mass split into?
Hypoblast and epiblast
Which part of the epiblast is touching the blastocoele?
Hypoblast
What happens once the embryo is fully implanted?
Formation of the bilaminar germ disk
What is gastrulation?
Differentiation from two layers of cells to three
What is another name for the hypoblast?
Primitive endoderm
What is the primitive endoderm displaced by in gastrulation?
Involuting cells that become the definitive endoderm and mesoderm
Where does the primitive groove form and what does it do?
One end of the epiblast and moves along the epiblast, displacing the hypoblast
What happens when the primitive streak reaches the other end of the epiblast?
It regresses