GIS08 Development Of The Digestive System Flashcards
Revision: Gastrulation
Day 16-18
- Epiblast cells migrate through primitive streak (inwards and from caudal towards cephalic)
- Definitive endoderm cells (from epiblast) displace hypoblast
- Mesoderm spread between endoderm and ectoderm
Formation of primitive gut tube: Day 16
- Developing endoderm initially open to yolk sac
- Cardiac primodia formed cephalically
- Longitudinal (cephalic-caudal) folding at both ends bring endoderm inside and form gut tube
Formation of primitive gut tube: Day 18
Longitudinal folding creates:
- Anterior intestinal portal (future foregut)
- Posterior intestinal portal (future hindgut)
- Cardiac region brought to ventral side of gut tube
- ***Oropharyngeal membrane: future mouth
- ***Cloacal membrane: future anus
Formation of primitive gut tube: Day 22
- **Stomodeum: **Ectodermal depression at head end of embryo –> front part of mouth
- Gut associated organs: forms bud from endoderm
- Midgut opening to yolk sac progressively narrows
Formation of primitive gut tube: Day 30
- **Stomach bulge + **Dorsal pancreatic bud become visible
- Connection of midgut to yolk sac reduced to Yolk stalk
Invagination of lateral body wall
- folding of embryo to enclose endoderm layer –> forms gut tube
- Lateral folding –> embryo with a gut suspended by dorsal mesentery (***Splanchnic mesoderm)
- ***Somatic mesoderm –> lines body cavity –> muscles and CT
Subdivision of gut tube and and their derivatives
Foregut:
- esophagus
- stomach
- liver + gallbladder
- pancreas
- proximal duodenum (up to major duodenal papilla)
Midgut:
- lower duodenum
- small intestine
- large intestine (cecum, appendix, ascending colon)
- right half to 2/3 of transverse colon
Hindgut:
- 1/3 left transverse colon
- descending colon
- sigmoid colon
- rectum
- upper part of anal canal
- epithelium of urinary bladder and urethra
Development of foregut derivatives: Septum transversum
Portions of gut tube and derivatives are suspended from ventral + dorsal body wall by ventral + dorsal mesenteries (***mesodermal tissue)
- **Septum transversum (future diaphragm):
- formed by aggregation of ***mesenchyme tissue that develops within caudal part of ventral mesentery of foregut
- between
- -> Primitive thoracic cavity
- -> Abdominal cavities
- contributes to formation of **CT in liver and **central tendon of diaphragm
Esophagus formation
- ***Respiratory diverticulum (lung bud) at ventral wall of foregut (4 weeks)
- -> ***Tracheoesophageal septum partitions diverticulum from dorsal foregut
- -> esophagus grows in length to keep up with descent of heart and lungs
Foregut:
- -> ventral: trachea, lung buds
- -> dorsal: esophagus
Stomach formation
- Dorsal wall grows faster than ventral wall
- -> greater and lesser curvatures
- stomach rotates 90o clockwise (around longitudinal axis)
- -> ***left side face anteriorly
- -> **left vagus nerve –> innervates **anterior wall (vice versa)
Omental bursa / Lesser sac formation
Stomach attached to dorsal abdominal wall by ***dorsal mesogastrium (mesentery) (vice versa)
- -> rotation around longtudinal axis
- -> pull dorsal mesogastrium to the left (vice versa)
- -> formation of Omental bursa / Lesser sac (pouch of peritoneal cavity / potential space behind stomach)
5th week:
Spleen primordium appears as ***Mesodermal proliferation between 2 leaves of dorsal mesogastrium
Congenital malformations of stomach
Pyloric stenosis:
- one of most common abnormalities in newborn
- Circular (mainly) + Longitudinal musculature of stomach in pylorus enlarges (hypertrophy)
- -> extreme narrowing of pyloric lumen
- -> obstruct passage of food
- -> severe projectile vomiting
Duodenum formation
- forms at junction of foregut and midgut
- as stomach rotates, duodenum takes on form of ***C-shaped (anterior) loop and rotates to the right
- duodenum rotation + pancreas growth
- -> swings duodenum from midline position to the right and lie against dorsal wall
- **dorsal mesoduodenum (mesentery) fuses with back body wall leaving main portion of duodenum in retroperitoneal position (only anterior covered with mesentery) —> **secondarily extraperitoneal
Liver and gallbladder formation
Liver, Biliary system, Pancreas:
appear as outgrowth of **endodermal epithelium at **distal foregut (4th week)
- connection between liver bud and duodenum narrows
- -> forming bile duct
- -> give rise to gallbladder and cystic duct
Formation of liver:
Liver bud grows and penetrates ventrally from duodenum into septum transversum (plate between pericardial cavity and yolk stalk)
–> invade entire **septum transversum
–> portion of septum transversum / mesentery between **liver and foregut / stomach
–> becomes membranous
–> ***Lesser omentum
- -> portion of septum transversum / mesentery between ***liver and ventral abdominal wall
- -> becomes membranous
- -> ***Falciform ligament
Pancreas formation
Outgrowth of dorsal + ventral endodermal lining of duodenum
–> Dorsal + Ventral pancreatic anlage
Rotation of duodenum
- -> ventral anlage moves dorsally
- -> lie below and behind dorsal anlage
- **fusion of ducts from dorsal, ventral anlagen
- -> formation of ***Main pancreatic duct
- -> enter duodenum together with bile duct at site of ***major duodenal papilla
original duct of dorsal anlage
- -> ***accessory pancreatic duct
- -> exit at ***minor papilla
dorsal anlage –> body and tail of pancreas
ventral anlage –> head and uncinate process