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in this video we'll talk about the
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process of gastrulation and focusing on
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the human gastrulation angle
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gastrulation is a set of coordinated
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movement which is very important for an
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embryonic development according to the
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famous embryologist Louis walpart it's
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not birth marriage or death but
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gastrulation which is truly the most
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important time of your life so what
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really happens during gastrulation
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during the gastrulation process the
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cells of blastula are given new
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positions they migrate into a new
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neighborhood in a very coordinated
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fashion and that's the key time to
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establish body axis and different Jam
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layers
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so here is AP blast and the cells of the
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AP blast would be reorganized in a
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coordinated fashion to give rise to
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layers like endoderm ectoderm and
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misoderm in short that is the process of
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gastrulation
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now this movement is not haphazard this
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movement is highly coordinated and each
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movement has features and there are
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different kinds of movement that can
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possibly occur during gastrulation like
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invagination involution integration
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delamination or even epiboli now all
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these movements are not happening all at
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once
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there could be a combination of movement
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that can occur in one organism and this
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kind of morphogenetic movements are
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different throughout the different
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Animal Kingdom I have a different video
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on morphogenetic movement
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so in this video if we cut a long story
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to short we would understand that
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gastrulation is all about coordinated
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movements of a pool of cells
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and this movement involves the entire
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embryo
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and patterns of gastrulation could vary
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throughout the animal kingdom there
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could be different types of movements
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happening during gastrulation
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now all the patterns of movement doesn't
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happen at once a combination of these
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morphogenetic movements that we
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discussed happens during gastrulation
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and we'll take an example of the human
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embryo to understand this better
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so this is about the end of second week
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of human gestation
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point of time
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the blastocyst is implanted into the
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uterine wall
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So at around day 15 you can see a
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distinct chorionic cavity here is the
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Primitive stock and you can see the
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embryo is hanging through the Primitive
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stock
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so now let's look at the embryo in 3D so
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here in red you can see the AP blast
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which would eventually give rise to the
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embryo and here is the hypoblast which
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would give rise to the yolk sac
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so basically it's amniotic cavity which
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is in between the epiblast cells and it
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is yolk Sac between the hypoglass cells
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during the process of gastrulation the
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bilaminar embryonic disc
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which is composed of epiblast and
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hypoblast ultimately gives rise to
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ectoderm mesoderm and endoderm
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and this process happens in a
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coordinated fashion over a period of
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time
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so let's look at the embryo in 3D so we
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can look at the embryo hanging in the
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chorionic cavity and here is the
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amniotic cavity in the embryo and here
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is a yolk sac
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so at this point of time at the caudal
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end of the embryo A Primitive streak
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forms
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and this is a thickening
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which contains a midline Groove
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and it forms the mid sagittal plane of
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the embryonic disc
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over the course of next day this
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thickening which is known as the
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Primitive streak elongates and occupy
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almost half the
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span of the embryonic disc
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and thereby the Primitive Groove is
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formed
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so at the cranial end of this primitive
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streak
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there is a formation known as the
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primitive node
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so this primitive node is really
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important to understand the process of
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gastrulation
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and a depression at around the Primitive
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node is formed which is known as the
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Primitive pit it contains a depression
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now the cells move through the Primitive
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streak
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inside
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the embryo and this is this process is
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known as ingression
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so let's leave the jargon and try to
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understand what is ingression but during
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gastrulation AP blast cells move towards
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the Primitive streak enter through the
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Primitive streak and then migrate away
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from the Primitive streak as an
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individual cell so overall lot of
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cellular aspects are associated with
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this process let us try to understand
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this better
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so Follow the arrow to look at the cell
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movement first of all these cells are
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moving towards the Primitive streak
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through the permissive streak and moving
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away the Primitive streak inside from
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the inside of the embryo
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so this is the integration process now
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if we look at the cross section of the
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embryo we can appreciate this movement
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look at the arrow and see how the cells
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move first inward then downward and then
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again Inward and this movement is
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ingression and it is key to understand
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the formation of the charm layers
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now here we are looking at the epiblast
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and hypoblast from our top view
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and this if we cut a cross section along
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this angle we would have a view like
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this
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one thing is to one thing is important
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to note that there is a pro or
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pre-codile plate which is defining the
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cranial end of the embryo the
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pre-cordial plate contributes to the
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oropharyngeal membrane a two layered
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membrane that would eventually be
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ruptured to give rise to the mouth
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opening also this pre-cordial or Pro
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chordal plate works like an important
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signaling Center which is crucial for
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the neural tube formation
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now if we Orient ourselves towards the
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embryo this is the chordal end there is
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a cranial and Left Right End
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now there are certain signaling
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happening which is allowing the
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formation of the Primitive trick
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so the Primitive streak induction
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happens
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via activity of wind TGF beta Etc
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and in the cranial end there are uh
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molecules which counteracts this wind
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activity and thereby a gradient is
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generated and along this gradient a
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cranial to caudal axis is formed so this
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is the induction of the Primitive streak
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and this is the formation of the
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Primitive streak which triggers the
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process of ingression
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now formation of the definitive endoderm
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is the next process at around day 16
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many of the AP blast cells move inside
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by the process of ingression which is
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one type of morphogenetic movement and
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they populate the inside of the embryo
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eventually they replace the cells in the
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hypoblast layer and eventually form the
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definitive endoderm
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so first the
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cells need to detach from the epiblast
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layer and this happens via process known
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as epithelial to mesenchymal transition
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if you want to learn more about EMT
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click on the I button
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so the first Ingress ingressing AP blast
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cells invent the hypoblast and displace
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its cells to create the definitive into
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term
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some of the epithelial cells migrating
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migrating through the Primitive streak
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diverge into the space between the
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epiblast and the definitive Hindu term
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and this is kind of like the intra
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embryonic mesoderm so this layer in
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Violet would be eventually becoming the
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mesoderm of the embryo so this Violet
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cells are actually going to give rise to
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the misoderm
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and at the last the
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term forms so once the formation of the
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definitive endoderm and intra-embryonic
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mesoderm is complete AP blast cells no
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longer need to move towards an Ingress
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through the Primitive streak so they
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eventually give rise to the ectoderm
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layer and thereby three germ layer
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formation is kind of complete
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so what we learned so far gastrulation
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is nothing but choreographed series of
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movements which helps to form three
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important jump layers known as ectoderm
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mesoderm and endoderm and each of these
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germ layers are important for
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organogenesis for example if we look at
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the ectoderm it give rise to central
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nervous system brain skin Adrenal
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medulla to name a few
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then mesoderm give rise to kidney
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reproductive system bone heart and
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spleen whereas endoderm give rise to GI
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tract liver endocrine system urethra
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bladder Etc so obviously gastrulation is
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the first Milestone that has to be
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achieved during the process of
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development eventually there would be
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many modifications and influences from
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inside and outside environment
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the very next thing that happens is the
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neural tube formation
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neural tube formation is a complicated
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process and in the next video we would
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talk about the neural tube so if you
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look at the embryo from a top view right
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now and a cross section view you can
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completely imagine that this flat sheet
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of ectodermal cells are eventually
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folding to form a tube-like organization
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and this is the neural tube eventually
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our brain is nothing about but a tube at
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one side it is blown up like a balloon
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in the brain side and other side it's
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tippering in the spinal cord so in a
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next video we'll talk about the neural
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tube folding process and the defects
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associated with neural tube folding
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