CV Embryology Kahn Flashcards
1
Q
Where is the first evidence of heart formation?
A
Splanchnic layer of lateral plate mesoderm (just said splanchnic later in class)
2
Q
What type of cells are within the splanchnic mesoderm?
A
Cardiac Myoblasts
3
Q
- What are these cells derived from?
A
- Cardiac Progenitor cells induced by underlying pharyngeal endoderm
4
Q
- What do blood islands in the same region form?
A
- Endothelial lined tubes and transitory blood vessels, definitive blood cells come from mesoderm around aorta later from liver even later from bone marrow
5
Q
- Where does the future heart begin?
A
- Cranial part of embryo, Buccopharyngeal membrane is landmark for this, it its just cranial to the buccopharyngeal membrane
6
Q
- What is the cardiogenic field?
A
- Endothelial lined tubes and myoblasts formed by the previous blood islands, just cranial to the buccopharyngeal membrane
7
Q
- What is above the cardiogenic field?
A
- Pericardial cavity which is derived from the embryonic cavity
8
Q
- What brings the heart into its natural anatomical position?
A
- Cranial and caudal folding of the embryo brings the heart into the thoracic region
9
Q
- What forms the two endothelial lined tubes on both sides of the heart?
A
- Blood islands produce angiogenic cells that dissolve into these endothelial lined tubes, they eventually become endocardial regions of the heart
10
Q
- What happens to these tubes?
A
- Fold into the midline and fuse to form a single endocardial tube
11
Q
- What surrounds tube (cell type)?
A
- Myoblasts that will become the myocardium of the heart
12
Q
- What surrounds the tube and eventually disappears, & serves no function?
A
- Cardiac Jelly
13
Q
- List the invaginations of the endocardial tube.
A
- Truncus arteriosus, bulbus cordis, primordial ventricles, primordial atria, sinus venosus
14
Q
- What will each of these invaginations ultimately form?
A
- 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
15
Q
- How does blood enter the primitive heart? (Before Atria/Ventricle portioning)
A
- Sinus venosus
16
Q
- How are the atria and ventricles partitioned?
A
- 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)
17
Q
- Describe the formation of the AV valves
A
- Dense mesenchyme and myoblasts present, cavitation occurs and cells die, some are replaced by connective tissue which becomes chordate tendinae
18
Q
- What direction is blood originally shunted in atria?
A
- From right to left (mix of oxygenated and deoxygenated blood)
19
Q
- What is the crescent shape fold that grows down from the roof of the atria initially in atrial Septation.
A
- Septum primum
20
Q
- What does this form at the bottom of the atria?
A
- Osteum primum
21
Q
- What happens after this is formed at the top of the crescent shape fold?
A
- Osteum secundum (maintains shunting after closure of osteum primum)
22
Q
- What is the second structure that grows downward from the roof of the atria?
A
- Septum secundum