Cardio Embryology (Khan ?'s only) Flashcards
These are Khan's questions.
Where is the first evidence of heart formation?
Splanchnic layer of lateral plate mesoderm (just said splanchnic layer in class)
What type of cells are within splanchnic mesoderm?
Cardiac Myoblasts
What are Cardiac Myoblasts derived from?
Cardiac Progenitor cells induced by underlying pharyngeal endoderm
What do blood islands in the Splanchnic layer form?
Endothelial lined tubes and transitory blood vessels, definitive blood cells come from mesoderm around aorta later from liver even later from bone marrow
Where does the future heart begin?
Cranial part of embryo, Buccopharyngeal membrane is landmark for this, it its just cranial to the buccopharyngeal membrane
What is the cardiogenic field?
Endothelial lined tubes and myoblasts formed by the previous blood islands, just cranial to the buccopharyngeal membrane
What is above the cardiogenic field?
Pericardial cavity which is derived from the embryonic cavity
What brings the heart into its natural anatomical position?
Cranial and caudal folding of the embryo brings the heart into the thoracic region
What forms the two endothelial lined tubes on both sides of the heart?
Blood islands produce angiogenic cells that dissolve into endothelial lined tubes, they eventually become endocardial regions of the heart
What happens to endothelial tubes?
Fold into the midline and fuse to form a single endocardial tube
What surrounds endocardial tube (cell type)?
Myoblasts that will become the myocardium of the heart
What surrounds endocardial tube and eventually disappears, & serves no function?
Cardiac Jelly
List the invaginations of the endocardial tube.
What will each of these invaginations ultimately form?
Truncus arteriosus -> aorta and pulmonary trunk, Bulbus cordis ->inf. Part of aorta and pulmonary trunk & adjacent parts of two ventricles, Primordial ventricles -> ventricles, primordial atria -> atria, sinus venosus-> Right horn becomes right atrium, left becomes coronary sinus
How does blood enter the primitive heart ? (Before Atria/Ventricle portioning)
Sinus venosus
How are the atria and ventricles partitioned?
Endocardial cushions grow towards each other, partitions atria from vessels and ventricles (produces a pattern with two holes penetrating septum that divides atria from ventricles)
Describe the formation of the AV valves
Dense mesenchyme and myoblasts present, cavitation occurs and cells die, some are replaced by connective tissue which becomes chordate tendinae
What direction is blood originally shunted in atria?
From right to left (mix of oxygenated and deoxygenated blood)
What is the crescent shape fold that grows down from the roof of the atria (initially in atrial Septation)? What related structure is formed?
Septum primum
Osteum primum
What happens after Osteum primum is formed at the top of the crescent shape fold?
Osteum secundum (maintains shunting after closure of osteum primum)
What is the second structure that grows downward from the roof of the atria?
Septum secundum
What develops in this structure?
Foramen ovale
What causes blood to be shunted from RA to LA, after heart is divided into R/L V/A?
Pressure in RA is higher than L, pushes blood through foramen ovale to LA