Embryology 1 Flashcards
What are the 4 major stages in heart development?
- Primitive heart tube
- Heart looping
- Atrial and ventricular septation
- Outflow tract septation
When does heart development begin?
3rd week
What forms the circulatory system?
Lateral plate mesoderm
How are the 2 primitive heart tubes formed?
Angiogenic cell islands collect in the lateral plate mesoderm, move towards the midline and coalesce
What is the first major system to function in the embryo?
Cardiovascular system
When does the primordial heart start to function?
Beginning of 4th week
Why does the cardiovascular system begin to function so early?
The embryo is rapidly growing and nutrition by diffusion is not enough to satisfy the growing embryo
Where do blood vessels first appear?
- Wall of the yolk sac
- Allantois
- Connecting stalk
- Chorion
What are angioblastic cords?
Paired endothelial strands
When do angioblastic cords appear?
3rd week
Where do angioblastic cords appear?
Cariogenic mesoderm
What do angioblastic cords canalize to form?
Heart tubes
What is formed when the tubular heart joins blood vessels in other areas?
Primordial cardiovascular system
What is the pericardium derived from?
Intra-embryonic coelm
What are the parietal and fibrous layers of the pericardium formed from?
Somatic mesoderm
What is the visceral layer of serous pericardium derived from?
Splanchnic mesoderm
What are the structures on the primitive heart tube from cranial to caudal end?
- Truncus arteriosus
- Bulbus cordis
- Ventricle
- Atrium
- Sinus venosus
What structures are found in the arterial end of the primitive heart tube?
- Truncus arteriosus
- Bulbus cordis
- Ventricle
What structures are found in the venous end of the primitive heart tube?
- Atrium
- Sinus venosus
How many horns does the sinus venosus have?
2
Right and left
Where does each horn get blood from?
- Yolk sac via vitelline vein
- Placenta via umbilical vein
- Body of the embryo via the common cardinal vein
What does the truncus arteriosus continue cranially with?
Aortic sac
What arises from the aortic sac?
Aortic arches
Where do the aortic arches terminate?
Dorsal aorta
Which way does the primitive heart tube loop?
Anti-clockwise
Which regions of the primitive heart tube grow fastest?
- Bulbus cordis
- Ventricle
What do the bulbus cordis and ventricle form?
They form a u-shape known as the bulboventricular loop
How does the heart come to face the right?
The heart tube loops to the left side
What is the most frequent positional abnormality of the heart?
Dextrocardia
What other condition is dextrocardia associated with?
Situs inversus
When does the partitioning of the primordial heart occur?
Around the 27th to 37th day of embryonic development
What does the partitioning of the primordial heart involve?
1 or 2 actively growing masses of tissue
What does endocardial cushion formation result in?
Separation of the right atrioventricular opening from the left atrioventricular opening