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what are primordial germ cells?

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Earliest germ cells

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where do primordial germ cells arise from?

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‘Migrate’ from yolk sac, through hind-gut to genital ridge

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where do primordial germ cells enter?

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Enter presumptive seminiferous tubes (hoops) with pro-Sertoli cells

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where do primordial germ cells settle?

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on the tubule wall first

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what is spermatogonia?

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is an undifferentiated male germ cell

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where does spermatogonia take place?

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outside the blood-testis barrier

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what do spermatogonia undergo?

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spermatogenesis to form mature spermatozoa in the seminiferous tubules of the testis

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how to primordial germ cells proliferate?

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by mitosis

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what do primordial germ cells develop into?

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into gonocytes

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how do gonocytes proliferate?

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by mitosis

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what do gonocytes develop into?

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Pro-spermatogonia

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what do Pro-spermatogonia develop into?

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Spermatogonia by the end of the foetal stage

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what is the prepubertal phase?

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Earliest spermatogonia become stem cells and acquire self-renewal capacity

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what is the process of spermatogonia in rodents?

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A0 considered to be stem cells

Give rise to a succession of generations of A s’gonia

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what does spermatogonia in rodents allow?

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allows dramatic expansion of a small stem cell pool

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what is the process of spermatogonia in humans?

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Adark considered to be stem cells. Apale are proliferative.

form intermediate which form new cells.

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what is a difference in process between spermatogonia in humans compared to rodents?

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in humans

Large reserve of stem cells & relatively few proliferative divisions

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what happens to spermatogonia in the prepubertal phase?

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become stem cells and acquire self-renewal capacity

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what does the peri-natal spermatogonial division produce?

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spermatocytes

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what is all post-stem cell development?

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syncitia until just before sperm release

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when does spermatocytes arrest occur?

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in prophase of 1st meiotic division

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what do B spermatogonia give rise to?

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Preleptotene spermatocytes

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what do Preleptotene spermatocytes give rise to?

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Leptotene s’cytes

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what do Leptotene s’cytes give rise to?

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Zygotene s’cytes

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what do Zygotene s'cytes give rise to?
Pachytene s'cytes
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what do Pachytene s'cytes give rise to?
Diplotene s'cytes
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what does Diplotene s'cytes lead to?
1st meiotic division
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what happens after 1st meiotic division?
Secondary s'cytes produced | cells now haploid
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what does Secondary s'cytes lead to?
2nd meiotic division
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what is the role of Preleptotene spermatocytes?
S-phase
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what is the role of Leptotene s'cytes?
chromatin remodelling
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what is the role of Zygotene s'cytes?
chromatin remodelling
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what is the role of Pachytene s'cytes?
transcription, translation increase in size
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what do Diplotene s'cytes do?
enter meiosis
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what is spermatogenesis?
Development of spermatids
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what are the 3 types of spermatids?
round, elongating, maturation phase
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what are the round spermatids a product of?
the 2nd meiotic division
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what happens in round spermatids?
Nucleus still capable of transcription, DNA repair etc but activity diminishes. Nuclear histones are replaced by transition proteins
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what happens at the opposite pole?
Onset of flagellum development and acrosome dev.
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what are elongating spermatids?
transcriptionally inactive
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what are transition proteins replaced by in elongated spermatids?
protamines, much higher order of packing, dramatic reduction in nuclear size - essential for motility
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what happens to elongating spermatids?
Flagellum develops fully. Cytoplasm shrinks away to form droplet
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what are Maturation phase spermatids?
have morphology of mature spermatozoa
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what happens to Maturation phase spermatids?
Shed into lumen of tubule at spermiation. Cytoplasmic droplet phagocytosed by Sertoli cell
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what is a oogonium?
Primordial germ cell
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what does oogonium develop into?
primary oocyte arrested in prophase of meiosis I (diplotene)
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what happens at ovulation?
expulsion of 1st polar body (metaphase II)
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what happens after ovulation?
2nd period of arrest
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what happens at fertilisation?
expulsion of 2nd polar body
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in females where do all germ cell, mitotic activity occur?
during foetal life
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what is the final number of cells in the egg fixed?
in utero
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what happens at completion of mitoses?
cells enter meiosis but are arrested at diplotene
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what happens once the cells enter mitosis?
form germinal vesicle
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what happens at the dictyate stage?
Large numbers of dictyate germ cells die (by apoptosis) in last trimester
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what is an oogonium bounded by?
by basement membrane & surrounded by spindle-shaped cells forms germinal vesicle
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what happens following arrest in gametogenesis?
1º oocyte surrounded by granulosa cells: primordial follicle
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what happens at puberty?
a few primordial follicle's recruited to re-commence development
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what is Folliculogenesis?
-> 1º, 2º pre-ovulatory follicles
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what is the Pre-Antral follicle?
Secretion of glycoproteins forms zona pellucida
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what happens with Pre-Antral follicle?
Division of granular cells: cytoplasmic processes to oocyte; gap junctions; avascular
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what do Ovarian stromal cells form?
theca around follicle (interna +externa)
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what happens with the Antral (Graafian) follicle?
Granular cell proliferation increase in follicle size
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what does the secretion of follicular fluid do?
mucopolysaccharides + serum forms antrum
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what is the oocyte connected to?
to thick gran. cell layer (cumulus oophorous) by stalk
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what does the oocyte continue to store?
mRNA
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what is gonadotrophin?
hormone stimulates activity of the gonads | Synthesis of steroids
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what is the Pre-ovulatory follicle?
Transient peak of LH stim’s ovulation. | Breakdown of nuclear memb, separation of chrom’s + unequal division of cytoplasm, extrusion of 1st polar body
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what develops after the separation of chromatids?
metaphase plate 2nd meiotic arrest

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