Define neurulation
Formation and closure of the neural tube
How does neurulation occur?
What are the neuropores?
What does the lumen of the neural tube develop into?
Brain ventricles and central canal of the spinal cord
When do the neuropores close?
- posterior closes at 27-28 days
What do the neural crest cells become?
Peripheral nerves, endocrine glands, CT and specialized tissue
What do cranial neural crest cells differentiate into?
(enter pharyngeal arches and pouches = thymic cells)
What do the trunk neural crest cells differentiate into?
1) Melanocytes (produce pigment, travel through dermis in ectoderm colonising skin and hair follicles)
2) Migrate to sclerotome = DRG, Sympathetic neurons, PS nerves, adrenomedullary cells, Schwann cells (of gut/abdomen/pelvis)
What is spina bifida?
What does spina bifida include?
- spina bifida occulta (mild, most common, 1 or more vertebrae malformed, small tuft of hair/dimple/birth mark)
What is myelomeningocele?
- sac contains CSF and nerves and spinal cord parts
What is meningocele?
- less common and less severe
What defects do you get if the anterior neuropore fails to close?
- anencephaly
What is anencephaly?
What is encephalocele?
How do the brain vesicles form?
- 5 secondary at week 5
What are the primary vesicles?
What are the secondary vesicles?
What brain structures come from which secondary vesicles?
Which ventricles come from which secondary vesicles?
What is hydrocephalus?
What is cerebral palsy?
What makes up the pharyngeal apparatus?
(develop in week 4, arch and pouch 5 regress)
What are the pharyngeal arches?