Embryology EXAM I Flashcards
What occurs during the early and late phase of lung development?
Early - positioning of lung primordium and primary lung bud formation
Late - mechanism of bronchial branching and cytodifferentiation
What week does development form and what forms during this in lung development?
Week 4
Laryngeotracheal/respiratory diverticulum via Tbx4 gene (endoderm of foregut)
Outgrowth of foregut (future esophagus) into surrounding splanchnic mesoderm
What direction does the laryngeotracheal diverticulum grow and what does it separate from, and what structure separates them?
Distally from the esophagus by the tracheoesophageal septum
Tracheoesophageal Fistula, Esophageal Atresia; what fetal anomally is this related to?
Abnormal connection b/w trachea and esophagus
Improper formation of tracheoesophageal septum
Feeding tube cannot move beyond upper esophageal pouch
Related to: polyhydramnios (too much amniotic fluid)
Polyhydramnios
High volume of amniotic fluid
Baby is not swallowing enough amniotic fluid
Symptoms of esophageal atresia (occlusion) and tracheoesophageal fistula
Treatment?
Infant is drooling, with choking, coughing, sneezing
When fed infant swallows but begins to cough and struggle as fluid is regurgitated
Infant may become cyanotic (blue), stop breathing as overflow of fluid from blind pouch is aspirated in trachea and lungs
Treatment: Surgical fix
At what week do the bronchial buds form? What will be their final fate?
Week 5; left and right buds form
Will become main primary bronchi
After, a series of branchings will occur to become respiratory bronchioles (secondary)
What does the splanchnic mesoderm differentiate into?
Smooth muscle
Nerves
Blood vessels of lungs
What are the 5 stages of lung development? At which stage is the infant born viable?
EGCTP
Embryonic (4-7)
Pseudoglandular (8-16)
Canalicular (17-26) = viable
Terminal sac (27-birth)
Postnatal (Alveolar)
What occurs during the embryonic stage of lung development?
(4-7)
Initial formation of respiratory diverticulum —> formation of major bronchopulmonary segments
Lungs grow into pleural cavities
Pleural differentiation
What occurs during the pseudoglandular stage of lung development?
(8-16)
Formation and growth of duct systems within bronchopulmonary segments
No respiratory components or gas exchange
Resembles a gland
What occurs during the canalicular stage of lung development?
(17-26)
Formation of respiratory bronchioles & terminal sacs (primitive alveoli)
Increase in vascularization, capillaries = gas exchange = viable
What occurs during the terminal sac stage of lung development?
(27-birth)
Alveoli/terminal sacs develop from the respiratory bronchioles
Alveoli differentiates in Type I and Type II
Type I pneumocyte
Type II pneumocyte
Type I = blood-air barrier
Type II = produce surfactant (facilitates alveolar expansion)
For viability = capillaries, alveoli, surfactant
What occurs in postnatal/alveolar stage of lung development?
Alveoli differentiation
Infant respiratory distress syndrome
Deficiency/absence of surfactant
Immature/damaged Type II pneumocytes
60% born less than 28 weeks
5% born less than 37 weeks
Pulmonary agenesis
Complete absence of lungs, bronchi, and vasculature
Bilateral or Unilateral
Bronchial buds don’t develop
Pulmonary hypoplasia
Poorly developed bronchial tree
Partial or total (entire lung)
Congenital diaphragmatic hernia; which membranes is involved? Signs?
Abdominal contents herniated into pleural cavity; can cause pulmonary hypoplasia
Stomach, bowel can be in the thoracic cavity
Failure of pleuroperitoneal membranes to fuse with other components (i.e. septum transversum)
Signs: flat abdomen, breathlessness, cyanosis
What are the major trends of cardiovascular development? (4)
Converted into a 2 —> 4 chambered structure
Embryonic vascular system separates into systemic and pulmonary portions
Systemic arterial outflow —> Left
System venous retun —> Right
Describe the vascular circuit of the embryo
Series of aortic arches connect to dorsal aortae
= Cardinal, Vitelline, Umbilical
Dorsal aortae subdivide into smaller vessels to supply the embryo
Blood is drained by anterior and posterior cardinal veins
Common cardinal vein is formed by the left, right, anterior and posterior cardinal veins = embryonic circuit
What are the nutritional circuits for the embryo? What does the vitelline system do?
Umbilical and Vitelline
Nutritional circuits = Vitelline veins and arteries; supply and drain the yolk sac “nursery for blood cells”
Umbilical/placental arteries and veins
Name the adult structure from each of the embryonic structures
Truncus Arteriosus = Aorta, pulmonary trunk
Bulbus cordis = smooth part of right (conus cordis) and left ventricle (aortic vestibule)
Primitive ventricle = trabeculated part of right and left ventricles
Primitive atrium = trabeculated part of right and left atria (auricles)
Sinus venousus = smooth part of right atrium, coronary sinus, oblique vein of left atrium