Midterms_Ectodermal Derivatives Flashcards
The ectoderm is made up of these three main derivatives
Outer Ectoderm
Neural Crest
Neural Tube
What are the derivatives of the Outer Ectoderms
Lens
Epidermis
Mouth Epithelium
Olfactory Epithelium
Nails
Sebaceous Glands
Hair
What are the subderivatives of the mouth epithelium
Clue: CAT
Cheek epithelium
Anterior Pituitary
Tooth Enamel
What are the derivatives of the Neural Crest?
Dentine of Teeth
Adrenal Medulla
Melanocytes
Peripheral Nervous System
Facial Cartilage
What are the derivatives of the peripheral nervous system?
PNSS
Parasympathetic Nervous System
Neuroglial Cells
Schwann Cells
Sympathetic Nervous System
What are the derivatives of the Neural tube?
Spinal Cord
Motor Neuron
Brain
Retina
Neural Pituitary
True or False
The nervous system is made up of the central nervous system and the peripheral nervous system.
True
What is the CNS made of?
Brain and spinal cord
What is the PNS made of?
nerves and ganglia
The development of the nervous system differentiates from this structure at different organizations.
Neural Tube
The development of the nervous system differentiates from the neural tube at 3 LEVELS OF ORGANIZATION. Which are?
Organ Level
Tissue Level
Cellular Level
In the development of the nervous system, what is the level of organization where the neural tube bulges and constricts to form the different regions of the brain and spinal cord
Organ Level
In the development of the nervous system, what is the level of organization where cells on the walls of the neural tube rearrange themselves to form different functional regions of the brain and spinal cord
Tissue Level
In the development of the nervous system, what is the level of organization where the neuroepithelial cells differentiate into neurons and glial cells.
Cellular Level
T or F
In the cellular level of nervous system development, neural crest cells differentiate into neurons and glial cells
False: Neural crest, Neuroepithelial
T or F: In the development of the nervous system (cellular level), the POSTERIOR portion of the neural tube develops into the brain whereas the ANTERIOR portion develops into the spinal cord
False: Interchange posterior and anterior
What type of directional differentiation does the brain vesicles and brain flexures undergo?
Antero-posterior Differentiation
What are the two features that forms in antero-posterior differentiation.
Brain vesicles and brain flexures
This is a process of expansion (of the neural tube) to form primary vesicles.
vesiculation
What region does vesiculation occur?
Anterior region
The brain vesicles have cavities called?
ventricles.
The secondary ventricles are derived from?
primary ventricles.
Essay
How does the brain vesicles form?
At the anterior region, the neural tube undergoes vesiculation, a process of expansion or ballooning into three primary vesicles, the prosencephalon, mesencephalon, and rhombencephalon.
These primary vesicles eventually form secondary vesicles, which give rise to various adult structures.
The brain vesicles have cavities called ventricles.
The secondary ventricles are derived from the primary
ventricles.
What are the ventricles that make up Forebrain, Midbrain, and Hindbrain respectively?
Prosocoel, Mesocoel, and Rhombocoel
What do you call the smaller compartments of the rhombencephalon?
Rhombomeres
This brain structure is formed by the derivatives of the midbrain and hindbrain
Brainstem
These are clusters of neuronal cell bodies whose axons form a nerve
Ganglia
What forms the ganglia?
Rhombomeres
T or F
In Brain Flexures, The brain grows far more slowly than the membranous skull enclosing it, causing the brain to develop flexures.
False; slowly, rapidly
In Brain Flexures, the brain develops three flexures namely:
Cephalic
Pontine
Cervical
T or F
The Cephalic flexure is found between midbrain and hindbrain
False: Found between Forebrain and Midbrain
T or F
The cephalic flexures folds the forebrain dorsally
False: dorsally, ventrally
The cephalic flexure pushes the mesencephalon to what direction?
upwards
True or False
Pontine Flexures are Dorsal Flexures
True
Where are pontine flexures located?
Between Metencephalon and Myelencephalon
The pontine generates what type of ventricle?
Fourth Ventricle
The cervical flexures are found between?
Myelencephalon and spinal cord
The cervical flexures folds the brain in what direction relative to the spinal cord?
ventrally
Another result of limited space is that, as the cerebral hemispheres continue to grow and expand, they almost completely envelope what secondary vesicles?
Diencephalon and Mesencephalon
State all the secondary vesicles
CLUE: Tel Di Mes Met My
Telencephalon
Diencephalon
Mesencephalon
Metencephalon
Myencephalon
Under the limited space from rapid brain growth, what structures form, that increase the surface area, allowing more neurons to occupy a limited space.
Convolution
Advantage of convolutions?
Increase surface area that allow neurons to occupy a limited space
T or F
The dorsoventral differentiation of the neural tube can be best understood by looking at the brain.
False: brain, spinal cord
The dorsal region of the neural tube receives input from what cells?
sensory neurons
What region of the neural tube receives input from sensory neurons?
dorsal region
What region of the neural tube does the motor neurons reside?
Ventral region
The region between the dorsal and ventral areas contains what cells?
interneurons
Purpose of interneurons?
Relay information between sensory and motor neurons
Fill in the Blank
Dorsal differentiation is influenced by __________ while ventral differentiation is induced by the __________.
- epidermis
- notochord
The epidermis BMP4 and BMP7 induce the dorsal most area of the neural tube to become what identity?
roof plate
What is the roof plate for?
It serves as a secondary signalling center
The roof plate also expresses what substance?
BMP4
What does BMP4 induce?
A cascade of TGF-β superfamily proteins
What does TGF-β superfamily proteins do?
Act as a morphogen
These signal molecules that diffuse from the source and form a concentration gradient.
morphogens
The concentration gradients of the TGF-β superfamily induce different types of what?
Transcription Factors
T or F
The concentration gradients of the TGF-β superfamily induce different types of vesicles in cells at different distances from the roof plate, giving them different identities.
False: vesicles, transcription factors
List the gradients of the following identities
• roof plate
• D1 interneurons
• D2 interneurons
• D3 interneurons
• BMP4, BMP5, BMP7, Dorsalin, Activin = roof plate
• BMP7, Dorsalin, Activin = D1 interneurons
• Dorsalin, Activin = D2 interneurons
• Activin = D3 interneurons
In ventral patterning, what is the substance secreted by the notochord?
sonic hedgehog (shh)
What does sonic hedgehog (shh) do?
induces the ventral most area of the neural tube to become the floor plate,
What is the function of the floor plate?
secondary signalling center
What acts as morphogens in ventral patterning?
sonic hedehog (shh)
T or F
The floor plate also expresses shh that acts as a morphogen, forming a gradient highest at the most anterior portion of the neural tube,
False: anterior, ventral
What signals the differentiation of different cell identities?
gradients
List their identities:
• Highest concentration of shh
• Decreasing concentrations from the floor plate
- floor plate
- V3 neurons
motor neurons
V2 interneurons
V1 interneurons
The neural tube is initially composed of a single layer called?
Germinal neuroepithelium
T or F
The germinal neuroepithelium is single layered
True
This is a mitotic neural layer surrounding the cavity (ventricle) of the neural tube
germinal neuroepithelium.
The germinal neuroepithelium is also known as?
ventricular layer or ependymal layer.
It is a pseudostratified layer whose cells divide vertically (instead of horizontally)
Germinal neuroepithelium, ventricular layer or ependymal layer.
In Neural Tissue; the ventricular layer or ependymal layer gives rise to two cells.
One cell remains close to the ventricle and remains as a what?
Stem cell
In Neural Tissue; the ventricular layer or ependymal layer gives rise to two cells.
The cells migrates away to become either what?
Neural stem cell and glial stem cell
Neural stem cells form what type of cells?
Neurons
Glial stem cells form what type of cells?
neuroglia
As the neuroepithelium divides, migrating cells form a second layer around the neuroepithelium called the?
mantle or intermediate zone.
As the neuroepithelium divides, migrating cells form a second layer called the mantle or intermediate zone around the neuroepithelium. The mantle differentiates into what type of cells?
neurons and glial cells
Neurons, from the differentiation of the mantle layer, establish connections with each other and send out axons away from the lumen, forming a cell-poor layer called?
the marginal zone
In the marginal zone, The glial cells ensheath these axons with myelin sheaths, giving them a whitish appearance thus referred to as?
White matter