2009 BGD-B Lecture Sexual Differentiation: Difference between revisions
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'''Johannes Peter Muller''' (1801 – 1858) in 1830 was the first to described the "Mullerian duct" also called the paramesonephric duct. | |||
==External Genital Organs== | ==External Genital Organs== |
Revision as of 17:48, 27 May 2009
Introduction
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Lecture Slides
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Objectives
- Understand the role of the Y chromosome in sex determination.
- Understand the differences in male/female duct develpoment (mesonephric/paramesonephric).
- Compare the development of the cloaca in the male and female.
- Understand the developmental abnormalities in male and female development.
Lecture Overview
- Gonad
- Internal Genitalia
- Reproductive Tract
- External Genitalia
- Development
- Function
- Abnormalities
Background Reading
UNSW Embryology
NIH Bookshelf
- Developmental Biology (Gilbert) Chapter 17
- Endocrinology (Nussey and Whitehead) The Gonad
Textbook References
- Human Embryology (3rd ed.) Larson Chapter 10 pp266-313
- The Developing Human (6th ed.) Moore & Persaud Chapter 13 pp303-346
- Before We Are Born (5th ed.) Moore & Persaud Chapter 14 pp289-326
- Essentials of Human Embryology, Larson Chapter 10 pp173-205
- Human Embryology, Fitzgerald and Fitzgerald Chapter 21-22 pp134-152
Genital System Development
3 stages
- Differentiation of gonad (sex determination)
- Differentiation of internal genital organs
- Differentiation of external genital organs
2nd and 3rd stages dependent on endocrine gonad
- Long Maturation Time-course
- Begins in embryo
- Continues through fetal
- Finishes in puberty
Sex Chromosomes
X Chromosome
- 1400+ genes
- 150 million base pairs
- 95% determined
Y Chromosome
- 200+ genes
- 50 million base pairs
- 50% determined
Gonad
- gastrulating mammalian embryo
- cells signaled by neighbours
- form primordial germ cells (pgc)
- migrate into genital ridges which develop into gonads
Primordial germ cells develop into
- eggs, if gonad is becoming an ovary
- sperm, if gonad is becoming a testis
Gonad will develop into an ovary unless its somatic cells contain a Y chromosome
Human Molecular Genetics - Development of the germ line
Sex Determination
- Humans (week 5-6)
- Germ cells migrate into gonadal ridge
- Gonads (male/female) identical at this stage (Indifferent)
Gonad development dependent on sex chromosome
- Y present testes
- No Y ovary
DNA with SRY Protein SRY protein binds DNA
Testes determining factor (TDF)
- Transcription factor
- Bends DNA 70–80 degrees
Internal Genital Tract
- Female - paramesonephric - uterus
- Male - mesonephric - ductus deferens
All embryos form paired
- Mesonephric duct - see kidney development
- Paramesonephric duct - Humans 7th week Invagination of coelomic epithelium Cord grows and terminates on urogenital sinus
- Male Gonad (testes) secretes
- Mullerian duct inhibitory factor (MDIF) which causes regression of paramesonephric duct
- Testosterone which retains mesonephric duct
Johannes Peter Muller (1801 – 1858) in 1830 was the first to described the "Mullerian duct" also called the paramesonephric duct.
External Genital Organs
- All embryos initially same (indifferent)
- Testosterone - differentiates male
- Male Hormone dependent anatomy
Endocrinology - External Genital Development
Genital Abnormalities
- Chromosomal
- Hermaphroditism
- Gonadal Dysfunction
- Tract Abnormalities
- External Genitalia
- Gonadal Descent
Chromosomal
- Turner’s Syndrome (Monosomy XO)
- 99% non-viable embryos
- Fail to sexually mature at puberty
- Klinefelter’s Syndrome (47, XXY)
- Begin normal male, become infertile
- Tall, mental dullness, behaviour problems
- Males (46, XX)
- Develop as male, infertile adults
- Part of SRY gene located on one X (see Sex Reversal in Humans)
Hermaphroditism
- True Hermaphroditism (46,XX)
- Gonads both ovary and teste tissues
- Ovotestes or ovary and testes
- Male Pseudohermaphrodites (46,XY)
- Gonads of one sex, external genitalia of opposite
- Various causes
- Female Pseudohermaphrodites (46,XX)
- Gonads are ovaries, external genitalia ambiguous
- Hyperplastic adrenals secrete androgens
Gonadal Dysfunction
Gonads fail to develop properly
- Gonadal Dysgenesis
- Swyer’s syndrome
- 46,XX
Mixed Gonadal Dysgenesis (45,X/46,XY)
- Primary Hypogonadism
- Affected females 46,XX
Primary Hypogonadism
- Defective anterior pituitary production of gonadotropin
- Lack of gonadotropin-releasing hormone
Tract Abnormalities
Many different forms
Uterine
- Associated with other anomalies
- Paramesonephric duct (0.1-0.5% of women)
- several classifications
- Unicornuate, bicornuate uterus
Vagina
- Agenesis, atresia
- See also endocrine disruptors
Ductus Deferens
- Uni- or bilateral absence
- Failure of mesonephric duct to differentiate
External Genitalia
- Multi-factoral
- Chromosomal, single gene, environmental
- Developmental arrest gives ambiguous
Hypospadias
- Common male (1 in 300)
- failure of urogenital folds to fuse
- results in a proximally displaced urethral meatus
Gonadal Descent
Cryptorchidism
- One or both testes fail to descend into scrotum
- 1:30 live male births
- May be associated with other abnormalities
Undescended Ovaries
- reasonably rare, also be associated with other uterine malformations (unicornuate uterus)
Virilization of a Genetic Female with Ovaries
- Fetal androgens
- congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH)
- adrenal adenoma or hyperplasia
- Maternal androgens
- ovarian or adrenal tumors
- Latrogenic
- exogenous androgens or progestagens with androgenic activity
Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome
- XY karyotype and presence of testes
- Externally - develop female secondary sex characteristics
- Internally - women lack Müllerian duct derivatives, have undescended testes
Puberty
- Hormone Axis LH & FSH
- Difference in timing
- increased gonadotrophin secretion and stimulate gonadal maturation
- rise in testosterone and estradiol secretions in males and females respectively
- positive feedback of estradiol in females also occurs during puberty
- secondary sexual characteristics
Tanner Stages
- External Genitalia
- Mammary
Mammary Glands
- sex hormone secretion of ovarian hormones estrogen and progesterone
- lead to reciprocal signaling between the epithelium and stroma
- branching and elongation through the stroma forming extensive network of ducts
- full development approx 20 years
- mainly fat and connective tissue deposition
- growth also influenced by other hormones
- prolactin, corticoids, growth hormone
Integumentary Development - Mammary Glands
Sex and Brain Differentiation
- Brains of males and females differ
- regions specialized for reproduction
- Also in other regions (controlling cognition, etc) where sex differences are not necessarily expected
- Differentially susceptible to neurological and psychiatric disease
- 2 sources of sexually dimorphic information
- complement of sex chromosome genes
- mix of gonadal hormones
- sex differences in brain attributed to differential action of gonadal hormones
- evidence for sex chromosome effects on both neural and non-neural systems
- XX and XY cells differentiate even before they are influenced by gonadal hormones
- even if exposed to similar levels of gonadal steroids
References
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