Embryology Flashcards
The kidney is formed from what division of the mesoderm?
- intermediate mesoderm
Kidneys are formed from what sequence?
- cranial - caudal
What is the 3 divisions of kidney development?
- pronephros
- mesonephros
- metanephros
What is the first development of the kidneys?
- pronephros
By what week is the pronephros vanished?
- week 4
- by which time the mesonephros has developed
What forms the definitive kidneys
- metanephros
When does the metanephros first appear?
- definitive kidney
- appears week 5
- functions begin week 9-11
What is the 2 main components the metanephros is responsible for?
- ureteric bud
- metanephric blastema
What forms the collecting system of the kidneys?
- ureteric bud
What forms the excretory system of the kidneys?
- metanephric blastema
Define kidney agenesis?
- no connection between the ureteric bud and metanephric blastema
What forms first the metanephric blastema or the ureteric bud?
- ureteric bud
What forms the major and minor calyces?
- branching and intussusception of the utereric bud
What forms the nephrons of the definitive kidney?
- metanephric blastema
What week does the kidneys ascend and to what spinal level?
- weeks 6-9 ascend
- L1 spinal level