unit 3 Flashcards
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What is a neural crest?
- transient, multipotent, migratory cells that differentiate into many tissues and organs
- start as 1 thing (neural crest) and go to many types
- epithelial to mesenchymal transition
What surrounds the neural crest?
somites
How does migration occur in the neural crest?
- neural crest to neural plate
- neural plate closes and promigratory cells close in
- delamination of neural crest cells
- then migratory cells
What are the regions of the neural crest?
- cranial
- cardiac
- vagal
- trunk
What is the cranial region of the neural crest?
- forms face, neck, cranial nerves, cartilage, bone, neurons
What is the cardiac region of the neural crest?
- division between aorta and pulmonary artery, cartilage and connective tissue and melanocytes
What is the vagal region of the neural crest?
- parasympathetic ganglia
What is the trunk region of neural crest?
- medulla portion of adrenal gland, sympathetic ganglia, melanocytes, and neurons
How do you study the neural crest?
- use multicolored organisms with CRE
- use mice
How is fate determined in the neural crest?
- start as progenitors and use paracrine signals to determine fate
How is the epidermis formed?
WNT + BMP
How is the placodal cells formed?
Wnt to BMP
How is the neural crest formed?
- Wnt to WNT and BMP
How are neural cells formed?
straight from wnt
What do ecadherins do?
- cell adhesion in stationary cells
What do n cadherins do?
- cell adhesion in migratory cells
What does C6B do?
- stabilizes neural crest
What does SOX2 do?
- keeps neural crest in progenitor stage as delamination progresses allowing for specification
What does snail 2 do?
- TF promoting epithelial to mesenchymal transition
What do lamelpodia and fillipodia do?
- directs growth with RAC1
What do actin and myosin do?
- retract with RHO1
What is contact inhibition?
- if they touch each other they repress and run the other way
What is the contact inhibition pathway?
- touching to cells rearranging to cells looking for vacant openings to populate to proper distribution
What is the premigratory domain?
- high BMP WNT SNAIL2
- repression of E+N cadherin
- SNAIL 1 and C6B upregulated