Development of the GI System Flashcards
What develops in week 4 of embryo development?
The primitive yolk sac develops into the endodermal digestive tract or the gut tube
What does the connection between the gut tube and the secondary yolk sac become?
yolk stalk and then the Vitelline duct
What develops into the abdominopelvic cavity?
Intraembryonic cavity (coelom)
What is the gut tube suspended by?
dorsal mesentery
What develops into visceral peritoneum?
visceral layer of lateral plate mesoderm
What does the gut tube consist of?
consists of a blind-ended cranial foregut (defined as part of gut tube extending from the mouth to just distal of the developing liver), a blind- ended caudal hindgut, and a midgut that opens to the yolk sac through the vitelline duct
Where does the foregut terminate?
at the oropharyngeal membrane (or buccopharyngeal membrane)
Where does the hindgut terminate?
at the cloacal membrane
What does the foregut give rise to?
gives rise to the Oesophagus (which, in turn gives rise to Tracheo-bronchial tree), Stomach, Proximal duodenum, Liver gall bladder, Pancreas
What has occured by week 5?
the thoracic and abdominal portion of the foregut is visibly divided into the pharynx, oesophagus, stomach, and proximal duodenum
What is the arterial supply and nerve supply of the abdominal foregut?
coeliac trunk
T7-T9 - pian is referred to the epigastrium
What occurs to part of the foregut in week 4?
part of the foregut which will become the stomach starts to dilate and become fusiform
What results in the formation of the greater curvature, fundus and cardiac notch of the stomach?
Differential growth of the stomach walls (the dorsal wall of the stomach growing faster than the ventral wall)
What forms the lesswer curvature?
Deformation of the ventral stomach wall forms the lesser curvature
What happens to the stomach during weeks 6-7?
Stomach rotates 90° around its longitudinal axis
(while also rotating around its sagittal axis)
What is the result of rotation of the stomach around its longitudnal axis?
result of rotation around the longitudinal axis, left side faces anteriorly, the lesser curvature faces to the right and the greater curvature faces to the left
What is the result of rotation of the stomach through its saggital axis?
result of slight rotation around the sagittal axis, lesser curvature faces slightly upwards
Where does the duondeum form from?
foregut and beginning of midgut
Where is the duodenum initially found? How do rotations of the stomach affect the duodenum?
midline
- rotate the duodenum
- cause the duodenum get into C shape
- displace the duodenum to the right until it lies against the dorsal body wall & become partially retroperitoneal
What occurs on approximatelt day 22 regarding the liver?
a small endodermal thickening, the hepatic plate, forms on the ventral side of the duodenum (hence in the ventral mesentery)
What does the hepatic plate develop in to?
hepatic diverticulum
What does the hepatic diverticulum give rise to?
inferior region of spetum transversum (which will become the diaphragm) and hepatoblasts
What do hepatoblasts become?
ecome hepatocytes (parenchyma), bile canaliculi of the liver (hepatic ducts)
What do liver sinusoids (stroma) develop from?
septum transversum