CVS Embryology Flashcards
When does the primordial heart begin to function?
Start of 4th week
Vasculogenesis =
blood vessel formation
Angiogensis =
vessels develop by sprouting/branching from pre-exsisting vessels
The 5 stages in blood vessel development in the embryo are:
- differentiation of mesenchymal cells
- angioblasts
- blood islands
- small cavities appear in blood islands
- endothelial lined cavities fuse to form endothelial channels
The nervous system is formed by
ectodermal cells (brain and spinal cord)
Blood vessels first appear where?
Wall of yolk sac
Heart tubes are formed by..
canalisation of angioblastic cords
Describe the arterial end of the tubular heart:
bulbus cordis
truncus arteriosus
aortic arches
Describe the middle of the tubular heart
ventricle (arterial end)
atrium (sinus venosus end)
Describe the venous end of the tubular heart
sinus venosus two horns (L + R)
one horn =
common cardinal vein
umbilibal vein
vitelline vein
The serous pericardium =
Derived from…
parietal and visceral layer
intra-embryonic coelom
Parital layer of serous pericardium and fibrous pericardium are derived from
somatopleuric mesoderm
The splanchnopleuric mesoderm forms the
visceral layer of serous pericardium
What forms the U - shape loop called the bulboventricular loop?
bulbis cordis and ventricle grow faster than other regions, so form a loop
What is dextrocardia?
Heart loop forms to left instead of right
Development of cardiac septa happens
27th and 37th days of embryonic phase
In atrial partioning, what things develop?
2 septum
2 foramen
These septum are the:
septum prinum
septum secundum
These foraminous are th:
foramen prinum
foramen secundum
The fossa ovals is formed by
septum secundum appears on right of septum prinum
grows and overlaps foramen secondum
Functions of oval foramen before birth
blood passage from left to right atria (non functioning lungs)
prevents passage of blood in opposite direction
Functions of oval foramen after birth
increases pulmonary blood flow
shifts pressure to left atrium
remnant of metal fossa ovalis