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What is the neural tube derived from?

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Ectoderm

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What substance is secreted by the notocord that converts it to the neural tube?

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Sonic Hedgehog

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What nutrient affects neural tube development?

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Folic acid

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What structure precedes the neural tube?

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The neural plate

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Describe neural tube formation

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A groove forms in the neural plate
The inner walls form into inner + intermediate mantle and outer marginal layers
The mantle layer forms dorsal (alar) and ventral (basal) plates
Tissues at the sides of the tube form the neural crest cells

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What part of the neural tube forms sensory neurons in the dorsal horn of the grey matter?

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Alar plate

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What part of the neural tube forms motor neurons in the ventral horn of the grey matter?

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Basal plate

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What does the innermost layer of the neural tube develop into?

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Ependymal cells

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What do the neural crest cells give rise to?

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DRG, adrenal medulla, melanocytes, enteric ganglia, schwann cells, sympathetic ganglia

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What CNS cell is mesodermally derived?

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Microglia

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Where does the spinal cord begin and end?

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Foramen magnum and L1/L2 in an adult

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What are the 2 enlargements of the cord?

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Cervical and lumbosacral

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Where is the cervical enlargement largest?

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C6

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What is the dilated end of the spinal cord?

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Conus medullaris

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What are nerves that exit the end of the spinal cord called?

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Cauda equina

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What is structures of the cord are derived from pia mater?

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Dentate ligaments, filum terminale

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What is the function of the dentate ligaments?

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They anchor the cord to the dura

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Where is the filum terminale internum?

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From conus medullaris to the end of the dural sac

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Where is the end of the dural sac?

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S2

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Where is the filum terminale externum?

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anchored to the coccyx, continuous witht he coccygeal ligament

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What are fasciculi?

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Fast conducting white matter that ascend and descend

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What spinal tracts are associated with 2 point discrimination, vibration, and joint position sense?

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Cuneatus and gracilis tracts

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Where do cuneatus and gracillis cross

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In the medulla

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What is the destination of a third order neuron in tracts gracilis and cuneatus?

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VPL of the thalamus

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What do cuneatus and gracilis tracts differ in control of?
Which set of limbs
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Between cuneatus and gracilis, which tract controls upper limbs?
Tracts gracilis
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What two spinal tracts are collectively known as the "anterolateral" system?
Ventral and lateral spinothalamic tracts
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What type of information is carried by the spinothalamic tracts?
Crude pressure, nociception, and thermoreceptors
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Where do the spinothalamic tracts cross?
In the cord
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Which crosses quicker the ventral or lateral spinothalamic tract?
Lateral
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Which ascending cord controls proprioception?
Spinocerebellar tract
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Where does the the spinocerebellar tract cross?
Dorsal - no crossing | Ventral - twice once in the cord and pons
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Which tract controls only proprioception in the lower limbs?
Dorsal spinal cerebellar
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What Rexed lamina is the anterolateral system carried in?
I and II
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What Rexed lamina are the spinocerebellar tracts carried in?
VII
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Where does the dorsal and ventral spinocerebellar enter the cerebellum at?
Dorsal - Inferior cerebellar peduncle | Ventral - Superior cerebellar peduncle
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What does the lateral corticospinal tract control?
Voluntary muscle control of the limbs
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Where does the lateral corticospinal tract originate?
Pre-central gyrus
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Where does the lateral corticospinal tract cross?
The medulla
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What does the ventral corticospinal tract control?
Voluntary muscles of head, neck, and trunk
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Where does the ventral corticospinal tract cross?
Spinal cord at the level of exit
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What does the rubrospinal tract control?
Excitation of proximal flexors and inhibition of extensors
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Where does the rubrospinal tract cross?
The midbrain
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Where does the rubrospinal tract originate?
The nucleus ruber
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What does the vestibulospinal tract control?
Postural neck reflexes, extensors of the back and limbs
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Where does the vestibulospinal tract originate?
Vestibular nuclei
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Where does the vestibulospinal tract cross?
It doesn't
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Where does the reticulospinal tract originate?
Reticular formation
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Where does the reticulospinal tract cross?
Many levels
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What is the function of the reticulospinal tract?
Restricts voluntary movements through the gamma motor neurons
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Where does the raphespinal tract originate at?
Raphe nucleus
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Where does the raphespinal tract cross at?
It does not
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What is the function of the raphespinal tract?
Inhibits nociception by releasing serotonin; this acts on C fibers
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What is located in Rexed lamina I?
Fibers from sensory first order neurons; contributes to contralateral spinothalamics
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What is located in Rexed lamina II?
Small neurons that respond to substance P
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What is located in Rexed lamina III and IV?
Nucleus proprius, main input is from mechanoreception and light touch
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What is located in Rexed lamina V?
Neurons that respond to noxious and visceral stimuli
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What is located in Rexed lamina VI?
Neurons that receive mechanical signals from the skin and joints
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What is located in Rexed lamina VII?
Clarke's column (dorsal nucleus) for proprioception; Intermediolateral horn is in T1-L2
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What is in Rexed lamina VIII and IX?
Alpha motor neurons to extrafusal skeletal muscles and Gamma motor neurons to intrafusal fibers in the muscle spindle
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What is in Rexed laminae X?
Grey commissure surrounding the central canal
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What supplies blood to the cord?
Segmental spine arteries derived from: ascending cervical, deep cervical, posterior intercostal, lumbar
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What do segmental spinal arteries give rise to?
Radicular and segmental medullary artery
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What do segmental spinal arteries supplement?
Anterior and posterior spinal arteries
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What does the anterior spinal artery supply?
The anterior 2/3
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What does the posterior spinal arteries supply?
The posterior 1/3

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