General information on male and female reproductive system: ovarian and testis structure; ovarian cycle; uterine cycle.
Gametogenesis: meiosis; male gametogenesis (spermatogenesis) and female (oogenesis); oogenesis and spermatogenesis hormonal control.
Fertilization: gametes modifications; fertilisation histophysiology; zygote. Stem cells and differentiation.
First week of development: segmentation; morula; blastocyst; embryoblast and trophoblast.
2nd week of development: implantation; bilaminar disk; trophoblast evolution.
3rd week of development: notochord; formation of the three germ layers (ectoderm, mesoderm, endoderm); definition of body shape and body axis.
4th week of development: ectoderm development and derivatives (neural tube and encephalic vesicles, stomodea); mesoderm development and derivatives (paraxial, intermediate and lateral mesoderm, somiti, myogenesis, mesenchyme); endoderm development and derivatives (primitive intestine, pharyngeal intestine: furrows, arches and gill pouches, anterior, middle and posterior intestines).
Embryonic appendages (amnion, chorion, yolk sac, allantoid, umbilical cord, placenta). Teratogenesis.