Neurodevelopment

Question 1

Meroancephaly

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Question 2

Anencephaly

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Question 3

Spina Bifida

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Question 4

Exencephaly

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Question 5

Folic Acid during pregnancy

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Question 6

Example of Segmentation

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Question 7

3 Primary and 5 Secondary Vesicles

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Telencephalon, Diencephalon, Mesencephalon, Metencephalon, Myelencephalon

Question 8

Otx2 role in anterior posterior neural structure. Disease caused by absence.

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Question 9

Wnt signaling role in rostral caudal

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Question 10

FGF 8 role in Anterio-posterio patterning.

Interaction of Pax6 and Emx2

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Question 11

Hox Gene function

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Question 12

Two inductive cues for dorsoventral axis

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Question 13

Holoprosencephaly

Disease and Cause

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Question 14

SHH Mechanism of patterning dorsal-ventral

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Question 15

Two mechanisms of cell differentiating

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Question 16

4 Major types of neural crest cell migratory pathways

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Question 17

Chicken Quail study - Nueral Crest Cell Purpose

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Question 18

Development of Cortical Layers - unique maturation

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Question 19

Migration of inhibitory neurons

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Question 20

Failure of GABAnergic neuron migration effect

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Question 21

Lissencephaly - mutation that causes this

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Lis1

Question 22

Cause of double layering in neuronal migration

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DcX Tubulin Mutation

Question 23

End anatomy of growing Neuron. - Two parts to this feature

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Question 24

Long Range Cues for Guidance

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Question 25

Short Range Cues for Guidance

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Question 26

General Mechanism - axon guidance

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Question 27

Effect-Loss of robo-3 in Mauthner

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Question 28

Effect of robo-3 mutation in humans

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Question 29

Sperry Frog outcome - growing back to original places or new places

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Question 30

Attractants and Repellents in eye for axon guidance. Where is EphB expressed Where is EphrinA expressed

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Question 31

How does motor activity affect motor neuron formation

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Question 32

What are neurotrophins

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Question 33

Post-synaptic cell role in trophic factors

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Question 33

NGF role w sympathetic neurons

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Question 34

Neuron competition - effect Which neurons do best

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The Largest and Earliest

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Ventricles derived from

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