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What is a stem cell?

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A self-renewing stem cells that can make differentiating daughter cells but it has high potency for the cells that it can make

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What is symmetrical division?

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2 self renewing stem cells or daughter cells that are committed to differentiate and the cytoplasmic material is equally divided

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What is asymmetrical division?

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When a stem cell and a developmentally committed cell are made

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Is there more symmetrical or asymmetrical division?

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Symmetrical division

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What is a multipotent cell?

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These are cells that can generate any germ layer tissue which is multipotent

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What is a progenitor cell/transit amplifying cell?

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These are cells that are only able to divide a few times

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What is a stem cell niche?

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This is a microenvironment that controls the cells and its impact on regulation

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What are the common attributes in cell niches?

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  • Extracellular mechanisms
  • Intracellular changes in stem cell behavior
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What are extracellular methods of regulation?

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  1. Physical mechanism such as structural adhesion factors in the ECM
  2. Chemical regulation by secreted proteins and progenitor differentiation
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What are intracellular methods of regulation?

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  1. Regulation of cytoplasmic determinants
  2. Transcription regulation
  3. Epigenetic regulation
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What is the inner cell mass?

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This is the pluripotent region of an early developing blastocyst

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What is a pluripotent cell?

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These are cells that can give rise to any cell except totipotent cells

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What is a totipotent/intial cell?

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These are cells that form 2 separate clusters one located at the most apical (shoot) end or the embryo at the most basal (root) end

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How are humans unlike hydra and planaria?

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Hydra and planaria can regenerate their limbs and the body

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What is a morula?

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This is an embryo undergoing cleavage but lacks a cavity

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What is the trophectoderm?

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Totipotent cells that surround the ICM and it makes the placenta

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What is the blastocoel?

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It is a fluid-filled cavity that formsW

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What is the epiblast?

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The ICM cells form the epiblast cells which then make the primitive endoderm between the epiblast and trophectoderm cells

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What is the primitive endoderm?

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The yolk sac

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What is the difference between ICM in vitro and in vivo?

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The ICM in vitro can generate all cell types but in vivo the ICM cells can self renew indefinitely

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What factors ensure that stem cells are uncommitted?

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Oct4, nanog, and sox2

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What does Cdx2 do for the trophectoderm?

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It is an activator for the outer cells of the morula

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What does Cdx2 do for the epiblast?

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It is a repressor

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How is the asymmtrical cell division correlated with the axis?

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Perpendicular positioned asymmetrical division leads to segregated daughter cells inside and outside the embryo

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How is the symmtrical cell division correlated with the axis?
Parallel positioned symmetric division leads to duaguter cells with an even distribution of cytoplasmic material
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What is the hippo pathway in the trophectoderm cells?
1. PAR and aPKC bind to AMOT 2. YAP/TAZ are available and translocate to the nucleus 3. Cdx2 is expressed
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What is the aPKC?
An inhibitor of the AMOT receptor
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What is the hippo pathway in the ICM?
1. E-cadherins bind to AMOT 2. Hippo kinase cascade 3. Degradation of LATS 1/2 4. LATS 1/5 inhibits YAP/TAZ 5. YAP/TAZ inhibits beta catening and BMP 6. YAP/TAZ translocates to the nucleus
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What happens to OCT4 in the epiblast?
It loses OCT4
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What was the dogma about neurogenesis?
That brain development stops after birth
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What are neural stem cells?
These are cells that originate from progenitor cells known as radial glial
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What are the 2 brain regions with NSCs?
1. Ventricular subventricular zone 2. Subgranular zone
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What are the 4 cell types from V-SVZ?
1. Layer of endodymal cells along the ventricular wall adjacent to the cerebrospinal fluid 2. Neural stem cells known as B cells 3. Transit amplifying C cells 4. Migrating neuroblasts
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What is a crypt?
It is a base of a villus that is like a steep well-like hole
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Where is the intestinal stem cell niche?
At the base of the crypt
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Where does cell removal happen?
The villi
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Where does cell generation occur?
Crypt
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What is the crypt base columner cell?
Proliferating intestinal stem cell at the base of the crypt
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What is critical to CBCC?
The delta ligand for the notch pathway
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What is a paneth cell?
It is a regulatory cell that leads to stem cell regulation and if deleted it detroys the ability to generate other cells
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What is a hematopoietic stem cell?
These are stem cells that can generate any type of blood cell
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What are the 2 subpopulation for HSC?
1. Divide rapidly 2. Divide quiescently
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Some stem cells are specific to a single type of tissue while others are more versatile what is the latter called?
Mesenchymal stem cells
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What regulates MSCs?
1. Paracrine factors 2. Extracellular matrix
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What are the transcription factors in the ICM doing?
They are preventing the differentiation of cells
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What does Sox2 and Oct4 do?
Activate nanog and other TFs that established pluripotency and blocked differentiation
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What is c-Myc?
Opens the chromatin and makes it accessible for Sox2, Oct4, and nanog
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What is Klf4?
It prevents cell death
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What is an organoid?
Pluripotent stem cells that make rudimentary organs
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What signals are on or off for a paneth cell?
Wnt on Notch off
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What signals are on or off for an enterocyte cell?
Wnt off Notch on
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What signals are on or off for an goblet cell?
Wnt off Notch off
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What signals are on or off for enteroendocrine cells?
Wnt off Notch on
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What forms when a differentiating daugter cell undergoes a transition?
Forms a transit amplifying or progenitor cell
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Did yamanaka alter the stem cell niche?
No
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What promotes glial genesis?
BMP
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