Neurulation & Development of the PNS Flashcards
___ incudes neuroectoderm to form Neural Plate
Notochord
What week does Neurulation begin?
Beginning of week 3
What makes up the ectoderm during neurulation?
- Neuroectoderm
- Surface Ectoderm
__-__ spine formation occurs during Primary Neurulation
Cervical-Lumbar (coccygeal and sacral regions undergo secondary neurulation)
What day does the neural plate form?
Day 17
During Primary Neurulation, the Notochordal Plate is __ to the Notochord, which is ___ to the Neural Plate
- Inferior/below
- Inferior/below
Need ___ in order to close the rostral & caudal neuropore
Folate
What signifies the end of Primary Neurulation?
Closure of the caudal neuropore at somite 31 (NT extends past this caudally into sacral and coccygeal regions)
What day does the Caudal Neuropore close?
Day 26
What day does the Rostral Neuropore close?
Day 24
What develops from the tail bud?
- Caudal-most NT
- Neural crest cells
- Somites
Secondary Neurulation
- Formation of the neural tube from the tail bud
- Involves the making of a medullary cord and its subsequent hollowing into a neural tube
- Closing of caudal neuropore is merged with the forming tail bud
Medullary cord grows ___ to primitive streak
Inferior
Steps of Secondary Neurulation
(1) Tail bud condenses into a solid mass, the medullary cord
(2) Medullary cord develops a lumen
(3) Lumen of medullary cord becomes continuous with more cranial neural canal – merges with central canal or neural tube (consists of mixed cells of mesodermal and ectodermal origin)
What days does Secondary Neurulation occur?
Days 20-40
Neural Crest Cells
- Neuroectodermal cells positioned along dorsal neural folds; present bilaterally along entire cranial-caudal NT
Neural Crest cells undergo ___
EMT
EMT
- Epithelial-mesenchymal-transition
- Lose contacts and become migratory
- Migrate ventrally along length of embryo
__ Neural Crest contributes to septation of the heart
Cardiac
Neural Crest Derivatives
- Melanocytes
- Odontoblasts
- Schwann cells
- Spinal & Autonomic ganglia
- Enteric nervous system
- Suprarenal (adrenal) medulla
- Characteristic facial features
- Pharyngeal arch (Malleus, Incus, Stapes, Styloid process, facial bones, Meckels cartilage, Hyoid cartilage, Laryngeal cartilage, Trachael rings)
What are the derivatives of Cardial Neural Crest cells?
- Aortic arch arteries
- Aorta
- Aortic-pulmonary septum
- Pulmonary artery
- Outflow tract
- Pharyngeal arches
- Right and left dorsal aortas
What are 5 Neurocristopathies?
- Goldenhar Syndrome (hemifacial macrosomia)
- Micrognathia
- TCS (Mandubulofacial Dystosis)
- Hirschsprung Disease
- Piebaldism
Goldenhar Syndrome (hemifacial macrosomia)
- Jaw and cheekbones on one side of the body are underdeveloped
- Associated with eye and ear abnormalities, sometimes cleft lip
Micrognathia
Lower jaw is underdeveloped or completely absent
TCS (Mandibulofacial Dystosis)
- Autosomal dominant disorder of craniofacial development
- Often affects jaw, cheekbones, ears, and ears
- Characteristics: downward slanting eyes, very small chin and jaw, hearing loss, and vision loss
Hirschsprung Disease
- Enteric nervous system doesn’t develop
Piebaldism
- Autosomal dominant disorder
- Characterized by the congenital absence of melanocytes in affected areas of the skin and hair
- Affected individuals present at birth with a white forelock and relative stable, persistent depigmentation of the skin with a characteristic distribution
- Due to mutations of the KIT proto oncogene that encodes a tyrosine kinase that is important in nearl crest cells; mutated KIT affects differentiation and migration of melanoblasts from the neural crest
Meningomyelocele
- NTD that can occur anywhere along the vertebral column, but most common in lumbar and sacral region
- involved a malformation of the vertebral arch, meninges, and nervous tissue, covered in a membraneous sac
- Does not lead to immediate death
Cranial Neural Tube Defects
- Typically found in the cervical region of the vertebral column
- May lead to immediate death of the fetus
Why is melanoma so deadly?
It reactivates cell’s migratory genes
What are the meninges?
- Membranes covering the spinal cord and brain
What do the meninges develop from?
- Neural Crest Cells
- Mesenchyme
What day(s) do the meninges develop?
Days 20-35 (3 to 4 weeks)
How is the Meninx Primitiva formed?
- When NCC and mesenchyme migrate and surround NT
- Results in formation of the primordial meninges
What 2 things does the Primitive Meninx differentiate into (days 34-48)?
- Ectomeninx
- Endomeninx
Ectomeninx between 45-60 days:
(1) Ectomeninx becomes more compact and forms spaces for future venous sinuses (collect blood from brain to drain out)
(2) Endomeninx becomes more reticulated and subarachnoid space/cisterns appear
What does the spinal ectomeninx give rise to after it dissociates from the vertebral bodies?
Spinal epidural space – necessary for epidurals
Ectomeninx is the future:
Dura
Endomeninx is the future:
Arachnoid and Pia
Dermal Sinus Tract
- Forms during Primitive Meninx differentiation
- Abnormal tract connecting the epithelium and the spinal neural structures and containing epithelial and/or neural elements
Neural Tube Closure
- Does not occur simultaneously along the length of the NT
- Closure starts in middle of embryo
- Cranial regions are more advanced than caudal regions
- Initiated at several locations along the AP axis
- Results in formation of the cranial and caudal neuropores
During NT closure why are the cranial regions so advanced compared to the rest?
Because the cells are growing faster than they can close causing cranial and caudal neuropores that are closed last (zipped from middle to cranial, and middle to caudal)
How many closure sites are there in NT closure?
5
Failure of any of the NT closure sites results in:
NTDs (cranial and/or spinal)