Embryology Flashcards
What is an early morula?
8 cells
About 80 hours
What are the first 6 stages after fertilization?
2 cell stage
4 cell stage
Early morula
Advanced morula
Blastocyst
Embryoblast
What is advanced morula?
16 cells
The advanced morula takes up fluid and enlarges into a blastocyst.
What does morula mean?
Morula is an embryo at an early stage, a spherical mass of blastomeres.
What is a blastocyst?
Before implantation
The wall of the blastocyst consists of a single layer of trophoblast cells and an inner cell mass, the embryoblast.
What is the embryoblast?
Early implantation
Also called an embryonic disc
What is the trophoblast responsible for?
The attachment of the blastocyst to the uterine epithelium and the implantation into the endometrium.
With implantation, what does the trophoblast divide into?
What will this form?
Divides into the cyto and syncytiotrophoblast
Which will form the embryonic membrane and the fetal portion of the placenta.
What does the embryo develop from?
The inner cell mass, embryoblast
What does the inner cell mass (embryoblast) divide into?
It divides into two germ layers: The inner layer endoderm The outer layer ectoderm
What forms after the two layers of the embryonic disc have formed?
A space appears between the inner cell mass and the trophoblast layer to form the amniotic cavity.
What two layers form the embryonic disc?
The inner layer endoderm The outer layer ectoderm
The amniotic cavity is between what two structures?
The amniotic cavity is a space between the inner cell mass and the trophoblast layer.
What is the amniotic cavity lined by?
The ectodermal cells and the amniogenic cells.
What forms the primitive yolk sac?
Migrating endodermal cells
What are the endodermal cells seperated from and what seperates them?
The endodermal cells are separated from the trophoblast by the extraembryonic mesoderm.
The embryonic proper is now a disc made up of 2 layers of cells which will form what?
all the intra embryonic tissues.
The ectodermal cells migrate between the ectoderm and endoderm which give rise to?
The intra embryonic mesoderm, the third layer.
What are the ectoderm and the endoderm separated by, except where?
The ectoderm and the endoderm are separated by the mesoderm except at the prochordal plate. The embryo is 20 days old and 1.5 mm
Where has the endoderm thickened?
At the prochordal plate
What are the three embryonic layers?
Endoderm (entoderm) -inner layer
Mesoderm -middle layer
Ectoderm -outer layer
The mesoderm layer is responsible for:
- Connective tissue
- Bone
- Muscle(including the heart and the pericardium)
- Vascular system
- Lymphatic system
- Kidneys
- Cartilage
What is the endoderm (entoderm) responsible for?
- Respiratory system
- Digestive system
- Bladder
What is the ectoderm responsible for?
- Skin
- Hair
- Nervous system
- Brain
- Spine
- Nails
Vasculogenesis:
What changes are made before Vasculogenesis can happen?
Where are the cavities?
Cavities are created within the embryonic mesoderm.
These cavities extend cranially and fuse just anterior to the precordial plate.
With the formation of the celom , the mesoderm has been separated into what 2 layers?
a parietal or somatopleuric mesoderm and the splanchnopleuric mesoderm.
Vasculogenesis:
In the mesenchyme of the splanchnopleuric mesoderm there are
masses of angiogenic cells .
What are angiogenesis cell clusters?
blood islands.
Vasculogenesis:
What do angiogenic cell clusters or blood islands form?
The angiogenic cell clusters or blood islands rapidly increase in no# and size from the growth of these vessels, the endocardial tubes will grow.