Lecture - Mesoderm Development
Objectives
- Understanding of events during the third week of development
- Understanding the process of early somite development
- Understanding the process of body cavity formation
- Brief understanding of the future fate of mesoderm components
- Brief understanding of early heart formation
Lecture Resources
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Hill, M.A. (2020). UNSW Embryology (20th ed.) Retrieved June 10, 2024, from https://embryology.med.unsw.edu.au | |
Moore, K.L., Persaud, T.V.N. & Torchia, M.G. (2011). The developing human: clinically oriented embryology (9th ed.). Philadelphia: Saunders. | The following chapter links only work with a UNSW connection. |
Schoenwolf, G.C., Bleyl, S.B., Brauer, P.R. & Francis-West, P.H. (2009). Larsen's human embryology (4th ed.). New York; Edinburgh: Churchill Livingstone. | The following chapter links only work with a UNSW connection. |
ECHO360 Recording |
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Lecture 5 - To be added after lecture. |
Notochord (Axial mesoderm)
Mesoderm
- generated from epiblast cells migrating through the primitive streak
- epiblast cells expressing fibroblast growth factor (FGF2)
- forms a layer between ectoderm and endoderm with notochord down midline
- present before neural tube formation
- divides initially into 3 components
- Paraxial mesoderm - somites - musculoskeletal structures
- Intermediate mesoderm - urogenital (kidney and genital)
- Lateral plate mesoderm - body wall, body cavities, cardiovascular and GIT structures
[File:Mesoderm-cartoon1.jpg]]
Mesoderm Development
The four images below beginning at week 3 show cross-sections of the trilaminar embryo and the sequence of mesoderm development.
Mesoderm Overview
Week 3
Trilaminar embryo Compare this week 3 trilaminar embryo with the week 4 embryo.
(Note - 2 these images are not to scale) |
Week 4
Scanning electron micrograph of a cross-section of a human embryo at week 4 (stage 11). Note the mesoderm structures now present and their relative position and size within the embryo. Compare the mesoderm structures to those formed by ectoderm (neural tube and epidermis) and endoderm (epithelia of developing gastrointestinal tract). |
Paraxial Mesoderm
Somite Formation
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Somite Specification
- Different segmental level somites have to generate different segmental body structures?
- somite has to form different tissues?
- Somite Differentiation
- Compartmentalization accompanied by altered patterns of expression of Pax genes within the somite
- rostro-caudal axis appears regulated by Pax/Hox expression, family of DNA binding transcription factors
Somite initially forms 2 main components
- ventromedial- sclerotome forms vertebral body and intervertebral disc
- dorsolateral - dermomyotome forms dermis and skeletal muscle
Sclerotome
- sclerotome later becomes subdivided
- rostral and caudal halves separated laterally by von Ebner's fissure
- half somites contribute to a single vertebral level body
- other half intervertebral disc
- therefore final vertebral segmentation ‚"shifts"
Dermomyotome
- later divides into dorsal dermatome and ventral myotome
- This topic of muscle and skeleton development will be covered in 2 later lectures Musculoskeletal Development and Limb Development)
- lateral myotome edge migrates at level of limbs
- upper limb first then lower
- mixes with somatic mesoderm
- dermotome continues to contribute cells to myotome
Myotome
- Myotome component of Somite
- epaxial myotome (dorsomedial quarter) forms the dorsal epimere (erector spinae)
- hypaxial myotome (dorsolateral quarter) forms the ventral hypomere, 3 primary muscle layers which are different at neck, thorax and abdomen
Muscle
- Myoblast determining transcription factor MyoD is first expressed in the dorsomedial quadrant of the still epithelial somite whose cells are not yet definitely committed
- basic Helix Loop Helix
- from myotome
Muscle Development Abnormalities
- Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy
- Embryonic muscle development normal and changes occur postnatally
- X-linked dystrophy, large gene encoding cytoskeletal protein - Dystrophin
- progressive wasting of muscle, die late teens
- Becker Muscular Dystrophy, milder form, adult onset
Intermediate Mesoderm
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Lateral Plate Development
- lying at the surrounding edge of he embryonic disc
- a cavity begins in this week to form within the mesoderm itself
Intraembryonic Coelom
- small spaces (vacuoles) begin appearing within the lateral plate mesoderm
- enlarge forming a single cavity within the lateral plate mesoderm
- divides lateral plate mesoderm into 2 parts at about day 18-19
- this cavity is called the Intraembryonic Coelom
- when the embryonic disc folds the intraembryonic coelom will form all 3 major body cavities:
- Pericardial
- Pleural
- Peritoneal
Coelom is a general term for a "cavity" and can lie within the embryo (intraembryonic) and outside the embryo (extra embryonic). Later anatomical spaces within the embryo and fetus can also be described as coeloms.
Somatic Mesoderm
The intraembryonic coelom divides the lateral plate into 2 portions
- closest to ectoderm
- body wall osteogenic, chrondrogenic and fibrogenic
- except ribs and scapula
Splanchnic Mesoderm
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Somitogenesis
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gastrulation, notochordal process | ||||
primitive pit, notochordal canal | ||||
Somite Number 1 - 3 neural folds, cardiac primordium, head fold | ||||
Somite Number 4 - 12 neural fold fuses | ||||
Somite Number 13 - 20 rostral neuropore closes | ||||
Somite Number 21 - 29 caudal neuropore closes | ||||
Somite Number 30 leg buds, lens placode, pharyngeal arches | ||||
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