Embryology 3 Flashcards
What is a summary for the development of the respiratory system?
1) Tubular outgrowth from foregut (oesophagus)
2) This outgrowth will develop into the trachea and lung buds
3) Trachea will seperate from oesophagus and lung buds will proliferate
4) Proliferating lung buds will invaginate laterally into the pleural cavities, so forming visceral and parietal pleural and the pleural cavity
5) Meanwhile, transverse septal ‘shelf’ will begin to develop between thorax and abdomen, below the pleural cavities
6) This shelf is composed of 4 components, which fuse to form the diaphragm
7) But sometimes things go wrong with the embryonic tracheal, lung and diaphragmatic formation which results in congenital abnormalities
When does folding of the embryo occur?
Week 3
What does folding give rise to?
Gut tube
What does the gut tube form from?
Endoderm
What does the trachea and lungs form from?
Foregut
What is step 1 in development of the respiratory system?
Development of the trachea and the lungs
When does development of the trachea and the lungs occur?
Week 4 of gestation
Where does the development of the trachea and lungs begin from?
Ventral wall of foregut
What is A?
Hindgut
What is B?
Yolk sac
What is C?
Foregut
What is D?
Primitive gut
What is E?
Notochord
What is F?
Neural tube
What is the process of the development of the trachea and lungs?
1) Respiratory primordium starts as a median outgrowth (diverticulum) - laryngotracheal groove - from vental part of the foregut
2) Diverticulum (part of endoderm) becomes invested (covered) with mesoderm on its outside and enlarges to form trachea and lung buds
3) A septum (oesophagotracheal septum) develops between the oesophagus and trachea, completely seperating them
What is the diverticulum part of?
Endoderm
What does the diverticulum become covered by to form the trachea and lung buds?
Mesoderm
What is the median outgrowth called that goes on to form the trachea and lung buds?
Laryngotracheal groove (diverticulum)
What septum develops between the oesophagus and trachea to completely seperate them?
Oesophagotracheal septum
When is the development of the trachea and lung buds completed?
Week 8
What sometimes happens to the oesophagotracheal septum?
It does not completely seperate the trachea and the oesophagus
What are examples of diseases due to the septum not completely seperating the trachea and oesophagus?
Fistula
Atresia
What is a fistula?
Abnormal or surgically made passage between a tubular organ and the body surface, or between two hollow or tubular organs
What is an abnormal or surgically made passage between a tubular organ and the body surface, or between two hollow or tubular organs called?
Fistula
What is an atresia?
A condition in which an orifice or passage in the body (usually abnormal) is closed or absent
What is the condition in which an orifice or passage in the body (usually abnormal) is closed or absent called?
Atresia
What stage is after the development of the trachea and lung buds (stage2)?
Development of the pleural cavities and pleurae
What is the process for the development of the pleural cavities and the pleurae?
1) As the lungs develop they acquire a layer of visercal pleura from the splanchnic mesoderm
2) The thoracic wall becomes lined by a lyer of parietal pleura, derived from somatic mesoderm
3) Gap between parietal and visceral pleurae called pleuroperitoneal canals (eventually becomes pleural cavities)
4) Pleuropericardial folds form around primitive heart deperating pleural cavities from pericardial cavity
What does the visceral and parietal pleura develop from?
Splanchnic mesoderm
What develops into the pleural cavity?
Pleuroperitoneal canals
What does the pleuroperitoneal canals eventually develop into?
Pleural cavities
How is the pleural cavities seperated from the pericardial cavity?
Pleuropericardial folds form around primitive heart
What happens after the pleural membranes have formed?
They differentiate:
1) Lung buds punch into the visceral mesoderm
2) Mesoderm which covers the outside of the lung develops in the visceral pleural
3) Somatic mesoderm covering the body wall from the inside becomes the pleura, with the space between ebing the pleural cavity
What happens after the differentiation of the pleura?
Differentiation of the lung buds
What stages can the foetal period be divided into?
Pseudoglandular stage (7-17 weeks)
Canalicular stage (17-27 weeks)
Saccular stage (27-40 weeks)