Great Vessels Embryo Flashcards
What is the difference between splanchnic mesoderm and mesenchyme?
Mesenchyme is embryonic connective tissue which is mainly mesoderm and has some neural crest.
Lung is made up of splanchnic mesoderm while heart is made of mesenchyme: splanchnic mesoderm and neural crest which help make bulbar ridges and the aorticopulmonary septum
Undifferentiated mesoderm differentiates into angioblasts/hemangioblasts which give rise to which two cells?
Hematopoetic Stem Cells (HSC)
Endothelial Precursor Cells (EPC)
Hemangioblasts aggregate and form blood islands which have the EPCs forming the vessels and channels, and inside the EPCs youll find the?
Hematopoietic Stem cells, BLOOD ISLANDS
Vasculogenesis
Formation of vascular channels using hemangioblasts/angioblasts, which are derived from mesoderm.
- Undifferentiated mesoderm will become angioblasts/hemangioblsts.
- Hemangioblasts –> hematapoietic stem cells and endothelial precursor cells (EPC)
- HSC and EPC –> hemangioblastic aggregates
- Hemangioblastic aggregates –> blood islands; EPCs with hematapoetic progenitory cells inside.
- Blood island will accumulate to form plexes
- Channels form within the plexe to carry blood.
- Channels enlarge and unite to form [arteries and veins]
What is angiogenesis?
Developing blood vessels from pre-existing vessels.
This occurs in adults and cancers.
What is arteriogenesis?
Existing arteries are remodeled in response to changes.
What does vasculogenesis begin?
End of the third week
During vasculogenesis, what can go wrong?
Hemagioma
What is capillary hemagioma (nevus vascularis)?
Small capillary networks grow excessively, resulting in cherry angiomas (Campbell de Morgan spots)
What are cavernous hemagiomas?
Proliferation of large dilated vascular channels.
What is hemanioma of infancy?
A benign tumor that consists of many endothelial cells.
Where do the blood islands form? (HPCs)
The extraembryonic mesoderm that surrounds the umbilical vessel/ yoke sack and in the region of the aortic gonad mesenephrose (AGM)
Once the blood islands form, they accumulate and form plexuses. Channels within the plexus enlarge to form?
The arteries and the veins
Paired dorsal aorta is formed bringing two heart tubes together.
What is the flow of blood during the fourth week?
Bulbus cordis –> trucus arteriosus –> aortic sac –>pharyngeal arch arteries (1-2-3-4-6) –> aortic arch–> drains into dorsal aorta.
The paired dorsal aorta fuse in the region of the abdomen, and in the region of the thorax they?
remained paired so they can be remodeled to form blood vessels
What are the three branches off of the fused abdominal dorsal aorta?
- Ventral segemental arteries
- Lateral segmental arteries
- Dorsal segmental arteries
What do the ventral segmental arteries supply?
Structures that came from the splanchnic layer of the lateral plate mesoderm and endoderm.
Such as: celiac trunk, superior mesenteric artery and the IMA.
What do the lateral segmental arteries supply structures that came from the _________________________.
Intermediate mesoderm.
–> Renal and gonadal arteries
Dorsal segmental arteries supply __________
derivates of somites.
Ex.- intersegmental arteries such as intercostal arteries and lumbar arteries.
As aortic arches form during days 26-32,
1 forms first, then second and third, and as third forms, one degrades, and as fourth forms?
second degrades, as 6 forms, third degrades.
When are the formation of the aortic arches complete?
Days 32-37.
They then give off branches to the developing head.
The 1st aortic arch/ pharyngeal arch gives rise to?
- External carotid A
- Maxillary A
The 2nd aortic arch gives rise to?
Stems of the stapedial arteries in the ear
The aortic sac gives rise to?
1. Brachiocephalic artery
2. Base of arch of aorta
The 3rd pharygeal arch/aortic arches gives rise to?
1. Common carotid A
2. Internal carotid A
The 4th pharyngeal arch/aortic arch gives rise to?
Left: medial portion of arch of aorta
right: proximal right subclavian A