Embryo of GI tract Flashcards
What tissue layer makes up the epithelial lining and glands of the GI tract?
Endoderm
During lateral folding, what is incorporated as the embryonic midgut?
yolk sac endoderm
What tissue forms the smooth muscle and connective tissue of the GI tract?
Splanchnic mesoderm
What is the peritoneum?
The serous membrane lining the abdominal cavity (parietal) and organs (visceral)
What is the mesentery?
A double layer of peritoneum that suspends an organ from the body wall (it can contain CT blood vessels, lymphatics and nerves
How are organs suspended from the body wall?
via the mesentery
What creates mesenteries?
lateral folding
What is the splanchnic mesoderm responsible for?
smooth muscle and connective tissue of the GI tract (including mesenteries)
What is the ectodermal contribution to the GI tract?
neural crest cells
What are neural crest cells responsible for in the GI tract?
They form the enteric nervous system
T/F all three germ layers contribute to the GI tract?
truth
T/F the GI tract is divided into the foregut, midgut, and hindgut regions?
true
What artery supplies the pharynx?
the pharyngeal arch arteries
What artery supplies the foregut?
The celiac trunk
What artery supplies the midgut?
The superior mesenteric artery (SMA)
What artery supplies the hindgut?
The inferior mesenteric artery (IMA)
What is the developmental structure that will eventually become the trachea, respiratory tree and lungs?
The respiratory diverticulum (appears on the ventral side of the foregut)
Which side of the stomach is the greater and lesser curvature on?
Greater curvature is on the dorsal side
Lesser curvature is the ventral surface of the stomach
T/F the stomach undergoes 90 degree clockwise rotation if looking from above?
truth
How does this affect the position of the greater and lesser curvatures?
Lesser curvature (ventral) ends up on the right side and the greater curvature (dorsal) ends up on the left
Because of stomach rotation in development, which nerve supplies which part of the stomach and why?
Well, the nerves travel with the stomach as it turns, so the right vagus nerve supplies the dorsal stomach which is on the left and vice versa
Where does the spleen form?
Between two leaves of the dorsal mesogastruim
As the stomach rotates the dorsal mesogastrium is carried to the _____ side.
Left (just follows the rotation of the stomach)
What important structure follows the dorsal mesogastrium as it is carried to the left?
The spleen