Repro 1, 2 and 3 Flashcards
What are the different causes of sexual differentiation?
Chromosomal
Gonad
Hormonal profile
Tubular genitalia
External genitalia
What are the three categories of disorders of sexual development?
Abnormal or missing chromosome
DSD with normal female karyotype
DSD with normal male karyotype
What causes Turner syndrome?
What causes Klinefelter’s syndrome?
Turners syndrome- XO or XXX- females with severe ovarian dysgenesis, hypoplasia and immature repro tract
Klinefelters syndrome- XXY- males with testicular hypoplasia
What is XX DSD?
What is XY DSD?
XX DSD- XX SRY negative, ovotesticular, true hermaphrodite, phenotypical female with masculinisation
XY DSD-
SRY-positive, testicular DSD with female phenotype
SRY-positive, testicular DSD with male phenotype
What is freemartinism?
Form of ovarian dysgenesis in cattle
Sterile female twin from a set of heterozygotic twins
Fusion of placental vessels + sharing of blood during early embryonic development
Testis determining factor, anti-Mullerian hormone- ovarian inhibition of female
What are the two ovarian circulatory disorders?
Intrafollicular haemorrhage-
physiological haemorrhage during ovulation
very occasionally severe even lethal
Traumatic haemorrhage-
due to manual enucleation of CL or cysts
What does this image show?
Enucleation haemorrhage
Haemorrhage following enucleation of corpus luteum
Blood clot in the ovarian bursa
Large blood clot containing an enucleated corpus luteum located near the cervix
How do follicular cysts arise in cattle?
What can happen as a result?
Arise from secondary follicles that fail to ovulate, involute or lutenise
Failure in LH releasing during oestrus
Common in cattle
Seqelae-
non-cyclic oestrogen secretion is possible
continuous oestrus, cystic endometrial hyperplasia
Multiple cysts can cause hyperestrogenism- nymphomania
Where are the three tissues primary ovarian neoplasms can originate from?
Surface epithelium
Ovarian stroma
Ovarian germ cells
What are the two neoplasms originating from the surface epithelium of the ovary?
Papillary cystadenoma-
most common in bitches
Papillary cystadenocarcinoma
occurs in older bitches
invasive growth- implantation on peritoneum, invasion and obstruction
can lead to ascites
What tumour can arise from the stroma of the ovary?
What species are they common in?
What can they cause?
Describe the histology
Granulosa cell tumour
Common in cows and older bitches
Cow- usually benign- secretion of progesterone, oestradiol and/or testosterone
Dogs/cats- are often associated with hyperoestrogenism
Histology- follicular structure and centrally cystic
What is the tumour that can arise from the ovary germ cells?
Dysgerminoma-
older bitches, female to testicular seminoma, can metastasise
Teratoma-
uncommon- mainly bitch
Arise from multipotential cells that produce tissues from 2 or 3 embryological layers- can be bone, cartilage, skin etc
What are the 3 different acquired abnormalities of the fallopian tubes
Hydrosalpinx- clear fluid in the tubes due to obstruction either at abdominal or uterine ostium
Salpingitis- inflammation due to ascending infection
Pyosalpinx- pus in tubes
What are the three uterus deplacements?
Torsion- usually gravid uterus
with relaxation of uterine bands and foetal movements
cattle- whole organ- congestion/death
Uterine prolapse
Rupture
What causes endometrial hyperplasia?
What are the different types and what causes them?
Endometrial hyperplasia- the result of excessive/prolonged female hormonal stimulation
Oestrogen mediated- prolonged non-cyclic oestrogen
hypertrophy of myometrium, hyperplasia of endometrium, hydrometra
Progesterone- bitches, retained CL
predisposes to infection and pyometra
What do the following terms mean?:
Endometritis
Metritis
Perimetritis
Panmetritis
Endometritis- inside
Metritis- involvement of myometrium
Perimetritis- outside
Panmetritis- throughout
What can cause a pyometra in a cow?
What different agents are more likely to cause it?
What can cause a pyometra in a mare?
COW
Persistent CL due to failure of PGF2 alpha- continued progesterone secretion and decreased myometrial contraction with closed cervix
Agents- tritrichomonas fetus spp veneralis
MARE
Postpartum infection independent of persistent CL
What are the different primary tumours of the uterus?
Leiomyoma- arising from the smooth muscles of the myometrium
most frequent uterine neoplasm in bitch/cat
Adenocarcinoma-
frequent in older rabbits
What uterine primary neoplasm is this histological image of?
Uterine adenocarcinoma
What is abortion, stillbirth and when does mummification occur?
When does maceration of the foetus occur?
Abortion- the expulsion of embryo/foetus before an age when it could survive
Stillbirth- the expulsion of the dead foetus at an age when it could have survived
Mummification- occurs in absence of uterine infection
Maceration- intrauterine infection
What notifiable disease can cause abortion in cattle?
How does it appear histologically?
Brucellosis- brucella abortus
Odesa of foetal membranes, necrotic cotyledons, thickened intercotyledonary membranes with yellowish, gelatinous fluid
Foetuses with serosanguinous fluid in subcut tissue and body cavities
What can campylobacteriosis cause in a gravid uterus of cattle and sheep?
Abortion
Necrotic coytledons