Development of the heart and blood vessels Flashcards
What is the defect associated with the formation of the four chambered heart tube?
→Situs inversus
What is the defect associated with cardiac looping?
→Dextrocardia
What is the defect associated with division of the atrioventricular canal into left and right channels?
→Ventricular septal defect
What is the defect associated with the formation of the atrial septa?
→Atrial septal defect – foramen ovale
What is the defect associated with the formation of the conotruncal cushions and division of the outflow tract?
→Tetralogy of Fallot
What is a morula?
→Solid ball of cells formed at day 4 as the zygote undergoes cleavage
What is an early blastocyst?
→ Hollow ball of cells with a fluid filled cavity
→ day 6
What is a late blastocyst?
→ Pre-embryo with the embryonic disk
→ two layers of cells that become the proper embryo
→ day 10
What is a gastrula?
→ Embryo with three primary germ layers
→day 16
What is the ectotherm?
→ Skin, brain spinal cord, sensory organs
What is the mesoderm?
→ Heart, skeletal muscle, kidneys, urogenital, connective tissue
What is the endoderm?
→ Lining of the GI tract and lungs, pancreas and liver
Describe gastrulation
→ Ring of blood islands towards the head in a horse shoe shape
→ Primitive streak will define the left and right of the embryo
→ Notochord will form part of the backbone
→Blood islands fuse together to form two basic tubes
Describe the formation of the heart tubes at 18 days
Heart develops from the primitive streak via the blood islands in the splanchnic mesoderm.
Describe the formation of the heart tubes at 20 days
The blood islands slowly form together into 2 tubes called cardiogenic cords
Describe the formation of the heart tubes at 21 days
The tubes fuse down the middle to make one heart tube.
Describe the formation of the heart tubes at 22 days
→Further development gives rise to a tube with asymmetric openings forming a arterial and venous end.
→Beginning of asymmetry in bulge to the left.
What is situs inversus?
→ normally functioning organs
→ organs are complete mirror images of the normal form
Describe cardiac looping at day 22
→The cells at each end of the heart proliferate making the tube longer.
→ The entire structure is in a confined space so begins to fold up on itself.
Describe cardiac looping at day 23
→ The primitive atrium loop up above and behind the primitive ventricle.
→ The looping process brings the primitive areas of the heart into the proper spatial relationship for development.