S5- Embryology Flashcards
2 causes of human birth defects:
Genetic= monogenic mutations/ chromosomal mutations (numeral/ aneuploidy or structural)
Environmental= teratogens
5 types of teratogens:
- Infectious (TORCH)= 5 examples
- Chemical= thalidomide and alcohol
- Physical= radiation
- Maternal disease= diabetes
- Deficiency= folic acid
Highest Risk of birth defects in embryonic period is around…
5 weeks
(3-8 weeks)
Infectious teratogens can…
Cross the placenta and cause birth defects
Folic acid deficiency (vitamin B) causes malformations in…
OTC supplements…risk by…
2 congenital malformations are:
Central nervous formations
Reduce, 60%
- Spina bifida (gaps in spinal cord/ doesn’t develop fully)
- Anencephaly (born without parts of brain or skull)
Diabetes can cause…
4 congenital malformations:
Cellular structural defects and changes in cellular physiology
- Macrosomia (larger than average0
- Ventricular septal defect
- Spina bifida
- Renal agenesis
Trophoblasts are the….cells of zygote and they differentiate into…
outside
Cytotrophoblasts and syncytiotrophoblasts (membranes break down/ have no defined membranes)
Embryoblasts are…and they differentiate into…
Cells in the middle
Hypoblast and epiblast
the terminology used to describe an embryo
Cranial= head region
caudal= tail region
ventral= front
dorsal= back
the planes used to describe an embryo
transverse= cutting across waste
sagittal= cutting through midline
coronal= divide into ventral and dorsal
the 2 techniques used to date a pregnancy
- menstrual age (clinicians)= from last mentrual cycle (1st day of bleeding) + 3 equal trimesters
- Fertilisation age (embryologists)= more specific + 3 unequal trimesters
the 3 trimesters of fertalisation age
- early development (includes cell division + pre-embryonic) 0-3 weeks
- Embryonic + organ development (organogenesis) 3-8 weeks
- foetal period 8-38 weeks
radiation can cause…and make the CNS more…
it is most sensitive in…trimester
3 congenital malformations are:
cell death or chromosomal changes
Sensitive
First
1. Microcephaly
2. mental and congnitive disabilities
3. haemopoietic malignancies (cancers in blood-forming tissues such as bone marrow) and leukemia (cancers of the blood)
two chemical teratogens
- thalidomide= prescribed for morning sickness and causes shortened or absent limbs (now used to treat leprosy and HIV)
- foetal alcohol syndrome= prenantal and postnatal growth retardation (doesnt grow at normal rate), intellectual disability, impaired motor ability and coordination
TORCH infectious teratogens and zika virus
1.toxoplasmosis= parasite in cat faeces and undercooked/ raw meat= asymptomatic
2. Other (hipatitis B, syphilis)
3. rubella (german measles)= rubella virus, use MMR vaccine= rash
4. cytomegalovirus (CMV)= via bodily fluids= asymptomatic
5. Herpes simplex virus (HSV)= varicella zoster virus- chickenpox
6. zika virus= mosquito, bodily fluids, fever/rash/ red eyes/ joint pain
outline the steps in the hormone cycle
- hypothalamus= GnRH (gonadotropin releasing hormone)
- stimulates gonadotropes in pituitary gland to release FSH and LH
- FSH and LH stimulate follicular phase and production of oestrogen
names of cells and follicles as they develop in hormone cycle
- oogonia (diploid 2n cell)
- primordial follicle (2n)= frozen in prophase 1
- primary follicle (2n)
- early secondary follicle (2n)
- late secondary follicle (2n)
- graafian follicle (n)- frozen in metaphase 2- contains antrum
once oestrogen reaches a critical level as oocytes mature in ovary, oestrogen exerts….feedback on…
follicle notices rise in oestrogen= produce…to inhibit pituitary from producing FSH
this results in…
Positive
hypothalamus= more GnRH= more FSH and LH
inhibin B
LH surge
the rule of LH in ovulation
ovulation occurs around day…
- increase blood flow and permeability into second half of follicle (blood vessels local to antrum)= more follicular fluid in antrum
- activate proteases enzymes that cleave tissue around graafian follicle= oocyte erupts from graafian follicle (ovulation)
- stimulate the remaider of graafian follicle into hormone factory= corpus luteum (produce progesterone)
14-15
if no fertalisation occurs, the corpus luteum….approx…days after…and oestrogen and progesterone…
if fertalisation occurs then cells called…secrete…to stimulate secretion of hormones until….takes over
degrades
10 days
Ovulation
Decrease
syncytiotrophoblasts
hCG
an implanted placenta
the outline/ steps of fertalisation/ week one after ovulation:
- capacitation of sperm (cleaning up head of sperm= removal of proteins and increase motility) -> pass through corona radiate
- acrosome reaction= releases enzymes to penetrate zona pellucida
- cortical reaction= impermeable zona pellucida
- cleavage= proliferation
- formation of morula= 16-32 cells (inner mass and outer mass)
- blastulation= morula-> blastocyte (fluid-filled cavity and emryoblasts and trophoblasts)
after sperm joins egg, a….forms and after fusion of….a…forms
zygote
pronuclei
embryo
The…sweep the oocyte into the uterine tube/ fallopian tube and fertalisation takes place at the….
fimbriae
ampulla
significance of the bilaminar disc
establish dorsal/ ventral axis of embryo
epiblast= dorsal/ back
hypoblast= ventral/ front