Nervous System Flashcards
The nervous system consists of 3 parts
- Central Nervous system (CNS) which includes the brain and spinal cord
- The peripheral nervous system (PNS), which includes neruons outside the CNS and, cranial and spinal nerves that connect the brain and spinal cord with peripheral structures
- Automatic nervous system (ANS), which has parts in both the CNS and PNS and consists of neurones that innervate smooth muscle, cardiac muscle, glandular epithelium, or combinations of these tissues
The neural tube differentiators into the ________, consisting of ________
CNS
brain and spinal cord
Neural crest gives rise to
Cells that form most of the PNS and ANS, consisting of cranial, spinal, and autonomic ganglia, and many other structures
The nervous system develops from the
Neural plate
The notochord and practical mesenchyme induce _____ to differentiate into the ______
Overlying ectoderm
Neural plate
Signalling molecules used to induce neural tube
TGF-Beta family
Shh
BMP
Molecular signals for brain development are initiated at the neural plate stage:
What established sensory and motor regions
BMPS establish sensory regions
Shh established motor regions
BMPS AND SHH are released in ______ gradients
Opposite
Ventral has more shh
Dorsal has more BMP
Shh is secreted by the _____ and the ______ in the neural tube
BMP’s are secreted by the ______ of the neural tube
Notochord
Floorplate
Roofplate
Neurulation
Formation of the neural plate and neural tube begins in 3rd week
Neural tube formation begins in the ___ week and is complete by the end of the ____ week
3rd
4th
The cranial opening of the neural tube _______ closes on approximately the ___ day while the ______ closes on the ____ day
Anterior neural pore or rostral
25th
Caudal neuropore or posterior neural pore
27th
Neural tube closure established the
CNS
The walls of the neural tube thicken to form the ________
Brain and spinal cord
Neural canal forms
- ventricular system if the brain (anterior)
- central canal of the spinal cord (posterior)
Cells of the wall of the neural tube (neuroepithelial) proliferate and the _______ decreases
Lumen
Neuroepithelial cells produce 3 types of cells….
Histogenesis of cells in the CNS
- Neuroblast (form neurons)
- apolar
- bipolar
- unipolar - Glioblast (spongioblast) which become
Macroglia: Atroblast and Oligodendroblast - Ependyma (cells remaining next to neural canal)
Happens in this order
Microglial cells are derived from ________ and serve as
Mesenchymal cells that invade the developing nervous system with blood vessels
Immune response cells
Walls of neural tube differentiate into 3 layers:
- inner ventricular layer
- intermediate layer
- outer marginal layer
Where in the neural tube wall are the 3 types of neuroepithelial cells
- ependymal cells remain in ventricular layer
- neuroblasts and glioblasts complete differentiation in the intermediate layer
- marginal zone is outer parts of neurons and also glial cells
Development of spinal cord
- neural tube caudal to the 4th pair of somites develops into the spinal cord
- lateral walls of the neural tube thicken, gradually reducing the size of the neural canal until only a minute central canal of the spinal cord is present at 9-10 weeks.
Spinal cord develops from the _____ parts of the _____
Caudal
Neural tube
Roof and floor of neural tube are
Thin plates
Side walls of neural tube thicken and the ______ separate the side walls into
Sulcus separates
Dorsal (alar) plates
Ventral (basal) plates
Alar plates become the __________
Dorsal horns of gray matter
- neuron cell bodies are in the intermediate layer. The marginal layer becomes the white matter
- have afferent/ sensory function
2/3 of neural tube becomes ____
1/3 becomes _____
Brain
Spinal cord
Neuron function different based on dorsal/ ventral aspect
-afferent/sensory (grow into alar plates) dorsal=BMP
-efferent/ motor (grow out of basal plate)
Ventral=shh
The intermediate layer of the neural tube is also called the
Mantle