Repro Embryology Flashcards
Sonic hedgehod gene
Produced at base of limbs in zone of polarizing. Involved in patterning along anterior-posterior axis. Involved in CNS development; mutation can cause holoprosencephaly.
Wnt-7 gene
Produced at apical ectodermal ridge (thickened ectoderm at distal end of each developing limb). necessary for proper organization along dorsal-ventral axis.
FGF gene
Produced at ectodermal ridge. Stimulates mitosis of underlying mesoderm, providing for lengthening of limbs.
Homeobox genes
Involved in segmental organization of embryo in a craniocaudal direction. hox mutation leads to appendages in wrong locations.
Within Week 1
hCG secretion around time of implantation of blastocyst
Within Week 2
Bilaminar disc (epiblast, hypoblast). 2 weeks= 2 layers
Within Week 3
Trilaminar disc. 3 weeks = 3 layers.
Gastrulation.
Primitive streak, notochord, mesoderm, and its organization, and neural plate begin to form.
Weeks 3-8 (embryonic period)
Neural tube formed by neuroectoderm and closes by week 4. Organogenesis. Extremely susceptible to teratogens.
Week 4
Heart begins to beat. Upper and lower limb buds begin to form. 4 weeks = 4 limbs.
Week 6
Fetal cardiac activity visible by transvaginal u/s
Week 10
Genitalia have male/female characteristics
How does gastrulation happen
Starts with epiblast invaginating to form the primitive streak, eventually establishing ectoderm, mesoderm, and endoderm germ layers.
What is primitive streak?
Forms in the blastula stage?????????????
What is a craniopharyngioma
Benign Rathke pouch tumor with cholesterol crystal, calcifications.
Mesodermal defects = ?
VACTERL: Vertebral defects, anal atresia, cardiac defects, tracheo-esophageal fistula, renal defects, limb defects (bone and muscle)
What kind of tissue is notochord?
Mesodermal
What is agenesis
Absent organ due to absent primordial tissue
What is aplasia
Absent organ despite presence of primordial tissue
What is hypoplasia
incomplete organ development; primordial tissue present
What is deformation
Extrinsic disruption; occurs after the embryonic period
What is disruption
Secondary breakdown of a previously normal tissue or structure (e.g. amniotic band syndrome)
What is malformation
Intrinsic disruption; occurs during the embryonic period (weeks 3-8)
What is sequence
Abnormalities result from a single primary embryological event (oligohydramnios resulting in Potter sequence)
Know what the embryologic derivaties are
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When are embryos most sensitive to teratogens?
Weeks 3-8. Before week 3: all or none effects. After week 8: Growth and function affected
Dizygotic twins aminion and chorion
Always diamniotic and dichrionic
What percent of twins are dizygotic
80%, monozygotic makes up 20%
Dichorionic, diamniotic monozygotes
Happens between 2-cell stage and morula stage, between 0-4 days post-fertilization (25%). can have fused or separate placenta
Diamniotic, monochorionic
Happens between Morula to blastocyst stage, 4-8 days, 75% of identical twins
Monochorionic, monoamniotic
If not conjoined, it happens between blastocyst and formed embryonic disc stage between 8-12 days and is 13 days