More Embryological Development Flashcards
What important features are included for cleavage?
- Subdivides zygote without increasing its size
- Starts at the 8-cell stage
- Blastomeres flatten and develop polarity
- Outer surfaces of cells becomes convex and inner surfaces becomes concave
- With compaction, some blasatomeres segregate to the center of the morula and others to the outside
What is a blastomere?
A cell formed by cleavage of a fertilized ovum.
What is a morula?
A solid ball of cells resulting from division of a fertilized ovum, and from which a blastula is formed.
What is a blastocyst?
An embryo at the early stage of development when it is a hollow ball of cells. Develops from a morula. Consists of cells forming an outer trophoblast layer, an inner cell mass and a fluid-filled cavity
What is a gastrula
an embryo at the stage following the blastocyst, when it is a hollow cup-shaped structure having THREE layers of cells.
Preimplantation genetic diagnosis PGD can be performed using:
Blastomeres
What types of patients is PGD usually performed on?
Those with increased age, and/or a high risk of transmitting a disease (causing mutation.)
What is a trophoblast?
A peripheral outer cell mass, which is the main source of the placenta
What is the embryoblast?
A inner cell mass which gives rise to the embryo proper
The cleaving embryo differentiates into what two groups of cells?
Trophoblasts and embryoblasts
During cleavage, the trophoblast cells express what?
A basally polarized membrane sodium/ potassium ATPase
The sodium/ potassium ATPase pumps_________ into the interior of the morula. And water follows trough osmosis to become ____________.
Sodium
Blastocoelic fluid.
The side of the blastocyst containing the inner cell mass is called the _____________ and the opposite side is called the_____________.
embryonic pole
abembryonic pole
What happens during zona hatching?
The zona pellucida degenerates and decomposes and is replaced by the underlying layer of the trophoblast cells now called the cytotrophoblast
What is the syncytiotrophoblast?
a mass of cytoplasm containing numerous dispersed nuclei which begin to implant the blastocyst into the uterine wall.
What happens during the second week of development?
The embryoblast splits into two layers forming a bilaminar embryonic disc.
What are the two layers of a bilaminar embryonic disc?
- The epiblast or primary ectoderm
- The hypoblast or primary endoderm
As implantation progresses, the syncytiotrophoblast (expands/shrinks)
Expands
On what day does the amniotic cavity appear?
8
What do the cells of the bilaminar germ disc develop into?
The embryo proper
What two things does the a bilaminar germ disc lie between?
amniotic cavity and the blastocyst cavity
What is the coagulation plug?
A plug of acellular material that seals the small hole where the blastocyst implanted.
What does the hypoblast form on day 9?
The extraembryonic endoderm
What does the extraembryonic endoderm do?
Completely lines the former blastocyst cavity and this membrane is now called Heuser’s membrane
What does the extraembryonic mesoderm do?
fills in-between Heuser’s membrane and the cytothrophoblast, with loosely arranged cells.
Once Heuser’s membrane is formed the blastocyst cavity is now called what?
Primary yolk sack
What happens on day 11-13?
cytotrophoblastic lacunae begin to anatstomose with maternal capillaries and become filled with blood.
What happens between days 12 and 13?
A new space called the extraembryonic coelom or chorionic cavity forms by splitting of the extraembryonic mesoderm into two layers.
What does the extraembryonic coelom do?
It separates the embryo with its attached amnion and yolk sac from the outer wall of the blastocyst.
What happens as the definitive yolk sac develops?
The primary yolk sac breaks up and is reduced to a collection of vesicles
What does the hypoblast produce on day 12?
A new membrane that migrates out over the inside of the extraembryonic mesoderm and pushes the yolk sac in front of it.
This new layer becomes the endodermal lining of the definitive yolk sac
What is suspended in the chorionic cavity by the end of the second week?
The definitive yolk sac, and the bilaminar germ disc with its dorsal amnion and ventral yolk sac.
What happens during the third week?
The appearance of a faint midline structure called the primitive streak in the epiblast.
What is pseudopodia?
When flattened epiblast cells develop long, foot like processes, which allow them to migrate through the primitive streak into the space between the epiblast and the hypoblast
What is gastrulation?
Cell migration, invagination and ingress
What happens to epiblast cells on day 16?
They begin to proliferate, flatten and lose their connections with each other
What is the definitive endoderm?
A new layer of cells formed when the ingressing epiblast cells invade the hypoblast and displaces (and eventually replaces) its cells
What does the definitive endoderm give rise to?
the gut and gut derivatives
What is the intraembryonic mesoderm?
A third germ layer formed when some of the epiblast cells migrating through the primitive streak diverge into the space between the epiblast and the definitive endoderm.