Branchial Arch Embryology Flashcards
Oral Cavity: Stomatodeum
Primitive oral cavity
- lined with surface ectoderm
- forms b/w developing brain and heart
- derivatives: oral mucosa, lips, gingiva, enamel, anterior pituitary
Oral Cavity: primitive pharynx
lined with endoderm
separated from stomatodeum by the buccopharyngeal membrane (disappears at the end of week 3)
Level of ectoderm-endoderm junction in adults
oral fauces (arches)
(back of throat)
Rathke’s Pouch
an ectodermal outpocketing from the stomatodeum
forms the anterior pituitary gland (adenohypophysis)
Posterior pituitary forms from
neural tube
(neurohypophysis)
Teeth begin to form during
week 6
Dental lamina
thick line of surface ectoderm along mandible and maxilla
dental buds
ectodermal primordial, forms enamel
dental papillae
neural crest derived mesenchyme, forms dentin and pulp
How many branchial arches form?
6 arches form around gut tube (visceral)
arch 5 degenerates (disappears)
How are bone, cartilage and connective tissue formed?
neural crest cells invade arches 1-3
laryngeal cartilages (arches 4,6) from LPM
How are muscle tissues created?
somites (paraxial mesoderm) invade to form muscle tissue
cranial somites (AKA somitomeres)
extrinsic eye muscles (CN III, IV, VI; GSE)
Occipital somites (AKA somitomeres)
tongue muscles (CN XII; GSE)
Myoblasts are from
cranial and occipital somites
migrate into branchial arch region, following NCC to form muscles of head and neck
CN V, VII, IX, X and XIc (SVE)
pharyngeal pouch
inside branchial arches, lined with endoderm
pharyngeal cleft
outside branchial arches, lined with surface ectoderm
Why are RLN’s found in the thorax even though they supply intrinsic muscles responsible for speech?
RLN is associated with branchial arch 6
Viscerocranium
(facial skeleton)
from branchial arch related neural crest
e.g. mandible, maxilla, zygoma, hyoid
Membranous neurocranium
from neural crest and somites (sclerotome)
flat bones of the braincase (crainial vault)
form through intramembranous ossification
e.g. frontal bone (NCC), parietal and occipital bones (PAM)
Neural chondocranium
from neural crest and somites (sclerotome)
bones of the skull base (basicranium)
form through endochondral ossification
e.g. sphenoid, ethmoid, petrous part of temporal bone