Embryology - Branchial arches and pouches Flashcards
How are the branchial arches formed?
Mesodermal condensations develop in the side walls of the primitive pharynx.
How do the branchial arches grow?
Around towards each other ventrally and they fuse in the midline.
What happens when the branchial arches fuse in the midline?
Horse-shoe shaped arches (pharyngeal arches) will come and support the pharynx.
What is the most cranial arch?
Mandibular arch.
What does the mandibular arch do?
Separate the mouth pit from the pericardium.
What happens when the mandibular arch moves caudally?
There is differential growth in the neck which causes the floor of the pharynx to elongate and there will now be 6 branchial arches.
What are arches?
These are the outside that are covered in ectoderm.
What is a cleft?
It is the space in between the pharyngeal arches that’s made with ectoderm.
What is a pharyngeal pouch?
It is the inside that is covered in endoderm.
What happens to the 4th and 5th pharyngeal pouches?
Open into the pharynx by a common groove on each side.
What is the relationship with external aspect and internal aspect of the pharynx?
The four ectodermal depressions correspond in position with the four internal endodermal positions.
What happens to the four thin parts between the arches?
The break down to form “gill clefts”.
What separates the ectoderm and endoderm?
MEsoderm.
What does the first pharyngeal arch develop into?
- Mandible.
- Maxilla.
What does the second pharyngeal arch develop into?
Part of the hyoid bone.
What does the third pharyngeal arch develop into?
Remainder of the hyoid bone.
What do the 4th, 5th and 6th pharyngeal arch develop into?
Cartilages of the larynx.
What forms in each arch?
- Central bar of cartilage forms.
- Muscle differentiates from the mesoderm around it.
What supplies each arch?
- Artery.
- Vein.
- Nerves.
What happens with the left and right half of the first arch?
They fuse ventrally in the midline.
What produces meckels cartilage in the first arch?
Chondrification of the mesoderm.
What happens cranially on each side of the arch?
A bump appears - maxillary process. This is not derived from cartilage.
What do the two maxillary processes do on the first arch?
Grow towards the midline and meet each other as well as the medial and lateral nasal processes. This will then produce the upper jaw and palate.
What does the dorsal end of meckel’s cartilage form?
- Incus and malleus.
- Anterior ligament of the malleus.
- Sphenomandibular ligament.
What is the sphenomandibular ligament?
It is the fibrous perichondrium of meckel’s cartilage, which remains after the cartilage has disappeared.
What is the lingula at the mandibular foramen?
Small persistent part of the cartilage.
What happens at the intervening part of meckel’s cartilage?
The mandible ossifying at the sixth week and extends into two symmetrical halves.
What happens to the meckel’s cartilage after birth?
It disappears.
What do derivatives of ectoderm and endoderm form in the first arch?
Mucous membranes and glands of the anterior 2/3 of the tongue.
What do mesoderm derivatives in the first arch form?
- Muscles of mastication (mass enter, temporal, pterygoids).
- Mylohoid and anterior belly of digastric.
- Tensor muscles (tensor palate and tensor tympani).
What do all the muscles formed from the mesoderm of the first arch have in common?
All supplied by the mandibular nerve.
What supplies the taste buds of the anterior 2/3 of the tongue?
Chorda tympani branch of the facial nerve - this nerve normally supplies the second arch.
How does the chorda tympani branch of the facial nerve supply the anterior 2/3 of the tongue?
The nerve divides into pretrematic and post-thematic branches, so the pretrematic branch of the second arch nerve suppleis some sensory fibres to the first arch.
What artery supplies the first arch?
First aortic arch - maxillary artery.
What does the first arch (mandibular) also give rise to?
Maxillary process - own sensory nerve (maxillary branch of the tri germinal).
What is the second arch?
Hyoid arch.
What bones/ligament does the second arch form?
- Stapes.
- Styloid process.
- Stylohoid ligament.
- LEsser horn and upper part of the body of hyoid bone.
What muscles does the second arch form?
- Muscles of facial expression - buccinator, platysma.
- Stapedius.
- Stylohoid.
- Posterior belly of digastric.
What supplies the muscles that are formed from the second arch?
Facial nerve.
What bones/ligaments does the third arch form?
- Greater horn and caudal part of body of hyoid bone.
What muscles does the third arch form?
- Style-harangues.
What supplies the muscles that are formed from the third arch?
Glossopharyngeal nerve.
What bones does the 4th and 6th arch form?
- Thyroid.
- Cricoid.
- Epiglottis and artenoid cartilages.
What muscles does the 4th and 6th arch form?
- Intrinsic muscles of larynx.
- Muscles of pharynx.
- Levator palate.
What supplies the muscles of the 4th and 6th arch?
Laryngeal and pharyngeal branches of the vagus nerve.