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CROSS-SPECIES ANATOMY - ANNOTATIONS

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Term:Mullerian duct
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Definition:Paired ducts of the embryo that run down the lateral sides of the urogenital ridge and terminate at the mullerian eminence in the primitive urogenital sinus. In the female, they will develop to form the fallopian tubes, uterus, and the upper portion of the vagina; in the male, they are lost. These ducts are made of tissue of mesodermal origin[WP]. develops either by lengthwise splitting of the archinephric duct (in chondrichthyans and some amphibians) or by a elongated invagination of the coelomic epithelium (other vertebrates) In males, the oviducts regress. The cranial end of the oviduct maintains an opening into the coelom (which primitively may have been the anteriormost coelomic funnels connecting the nephrocoel with the coelom). This opening is the ostium tubae[USM].
Comment:[development-note] "Sertoli cells secrete anti-Mullerian hormone (AMH) inducing the demise of this duct"; [homology-note] "In females, the archinephric (mesonephric) ducts tend to function only within the urinary systems. The muellerian duct arises embryologically next to the archinephric (wolffian) duct. In males, the muellerian duct regresses if it appears at all, but in females, the muellerian ducts become the oviducts of the reproductive system.[well established][VHOG]" xsd:string {date_retrieved="2012-09-17", external_class="VHOG:0001199", ontology="VHOG", source="ISBN:978-0072528305 Kardong KV, Vertebrates: Comparative Anatomy, Function, Evolution (2006) p.559", source="http://bgee.unil.ch/"}
Synonyms:exact_synonym: Muellerian duct;   Müllerian duct;   ductus paramesonephricus;   paramesonephric duct
 narrow_synonym: early paramesonephric duct
 alt_id: UBERON:0005318
 xref: AAO:0010141;   EHDAA2:0004048;   EMAPA:27665;   GAID:1309;   MESH:D009095;   NCI:C13260;   RETIRED_EHDAA2:0001399;   SCTID:308802006;   UMLS:C0026732;   VHOG:0001199;   Wikipedia:Paramesonephric_duct;   XAO:0000330



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    anatomical entity 0
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          lateral structure 0
            Mullerian duct 0
              fallopian tube + 0
              male paramesonephric duct + 0
              remnnant of ductus deferens 0
              upper part of vagina 0
              vesicular appendage of epoophoron 0
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    anatomical entity 0
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        anatomical structure 0
          multicellular anatomical structure 0
            multicellular organism 0
              embryo 0
                embryonic structure 0
                  embryonic tissue 0
                    germ layer / neural crest 0
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                        mesoderm 0
                          intermediate mesoderm 0
                            Mullerian duct 0
                              fallopian tube + 0
                              male paramesonephric duct + 0
                              remnnant of ductus deferens 0
                              upper part of vagina 0
                              vesicular appendage of epoophoron 0
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