Mechanisms Of Disease During Embryogenesis Flashcards

1
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What are the two main periods of human development?

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Embryonic and fetal

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2
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When is the embryonic period and what happens in it?

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Fertilisation -> week 8

When most of the organogenesis happens

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When is the fetal period and what happens in it?

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Week 8-> birth

Growth and modelling of organs

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4
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When does cleavage happen?

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When zygote is moving from the site of fertilisation to the uterus

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5
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What is another name for the 16-cell zygote?

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Morula

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6
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What is compaction?

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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

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7
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In the morula, which cells are polar and what are their poles called?

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Trophoblast cells have an apical and a basolateral surface

Inner cell mass are apolar

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8
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What is the blastocoele?

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Fluid filled space secreted by trophoblast

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9
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What is the blastocyst?

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Thing formed when the trophoblast has secreted the blastocoele and pushed the inner cell mass to the side

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10
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What does the inner cell mass split into?

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Hypoblast and epiblast

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Which part of the epiblast is touching the blastocoele?

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Hypoblast

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12
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What happens once the embryo is fully implanted?

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Formation of the bilaminar germ disk

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13
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What is gastrulation?

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Differentiation from two layers of cells to three

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14
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What is another name for the hypoblast?

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Primitive endoderm

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15
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What is the primitive endoderm displaced by in gastrulation?

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Involuting cells that become the definitive endoderm and mesoderm

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16
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Where does the primitive groove form and what does it do?

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One end of the epiblast and moves along the epiblast, displacing the hypoblast

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17
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What happens when the primitive streak reaches the other end of the epiblast?

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It regresses

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18
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Where does the mesoderm form?

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Between the epi and hypoblast

19
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What does the hypoblast form?

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Endoderm

20
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What does the epiblast form?

A

Ectoderm

21
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How is the notochord formed?

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Primitive streak regression

22
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What is the notochord?

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A rod of cells that secrete molecules extracellularly that instruct the exoderm on top of it to become neural tissue

23
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What forms the neural plate?

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Notochord secretions

24
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What forms the neural tube?

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Folding of the neural plate

25
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Where is the neural tube found?

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Buried in the embryo (covered by surface ectoderm)

26
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Where does neural tube formation start?

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In the middle and moves out towards the edges

27
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What does the ectoderm form?

A

Specification of the CNS

28
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What does the mesoderm organise into?

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Blocks called somites

29
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What are somites precursors to?

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Muscles and bones etc

30
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What does folding of the embryo form?

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Umbilical cord

31
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What is happening at the same time as neurulation and somitogenesis?

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Gut formation and body folding

32
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What model does the embryo folding follow?

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Cloth purse model

33
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What happens in embyronic folding?

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Septum and heart move from the margin to the centre

Yolk sac, allantois and stalk make the umbilical cord

34
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What delimits the gut tube?

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Prochordal and cloacal plates

35
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What happens in organogenesis?

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Differentiation of somitic derivitives
Development of sensory organs
Limb formation
Formation of facial structures
Formation of genital structures
36
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What are the stages of development from egg -> adult?

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Egg
Fertilisation
Cleavage
Gastrulation
Neurulation and somitogenesis
Organogenesis
Adult
37
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Which limbs develop first?

A

Forelimbs

38
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What is the establishment pattern of limb formation?

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Proximodistal,
anterior-posterior,
dorsal-ventral

39
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What are the desirable characteristics of a model organism?

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Relevance/representitive
Accessibilty/availibility
Experimental manipulation
Genetics
Cost/space
40
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What are specific gene mutations?

A

Cases when mutation in one particular gene will be enough to display a characteristic defect

41
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What are chromosomal anomalies?

A

Whole chromosomal rearrangements responsible for a disease

42
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What is an example of a chromosomal abormality?

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Trisomy 21- downs syndrome

43
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What is a polygenic disorder?

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When several different genes are simultaneously affected, causing disease

44
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What are environmental factors?

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Deleterious influence of the environment on a particular process