BGD Practical - Sexual Differentiation
From Embryology
Introduction
Aim: This practical is an introduction to the earliest events in Sexual Differentiation.
Key Concepts: Gonad, internal genitalia, external genitalia, ovary, testes, puberty, hormonal changes, gametogenesis, abnormalities.
Key Reading:
- BGD-B 2009 Laboratory Notes: Practical 12: Sexual Differentiation (PDF 6 pages, 648 kB)
- Human Embryology (3rd edition) WJ. Larsen Chapter 10 pp266-313 Development of the Urogenital System
- The Developing Human: Clinically Oriented Embryology (6th ed.) Moore and Persaud Chapter 13 pp303-346
- Human Embryology Fitzgerald and Fitzgerald Chapter 21-22 pp134-152
