Heart Development Flashcards
When do the primordial heart and vascular system begin to appear in an embryo?
middle of the 3rd week
When does the heart start to function?
beginning of the 4th week
From what three main embryonic structures does the cardiovascular system develop?
- splanchnic mesoderm - forms heart promordium
- paraxial and lateral mesoderm - near otic placodes
- neural crest cells - from between otic vesicles and caudal end of 3rd somite pair
What is the structure whose name is crossed out in blue?
What is its origin and significance?
It is paired. What do the two of them form and how?
angioblastic cords
- earliests signs of heart dev. (during 3rd week)
- paired endothelial cell groups which leave the cardiogenic splanchnic mesoderm just below the pericardial intraembryonic coelom
- later canalize to form endocardial tubes
What are the steps of the general process for the initial formation of the embryonic vascular system?
(acronym)
A B C F V A
All Boston Cabbies Find Vagina Appealing
- begin at end of 3rd week
- Angioblast Differentiation - mesenchymal cells > angioblasts
- Blood Island Formation - angioblasts aggregate > blood islands
- Cavities - intercellular clefts combine to form cavities in islands
- Flattening - angioblasts flatten to form endothelium
- Vasuculogenesis - endothelium-lined cavities fuse to form vessels
- Angiogenesis - endothelial budding > new vessels sprout from old
What forms from the endocardial tubes?
How and when?
Tubular Heart
- endocardium of the heart
- the 2 endocardial tubes fuse medially during “rolling” or transverse folding
- 4th week
What induces early development of the heart?
stimulation from the anterior endoderm
What 3 paired veins drain into the tubular heart of a 4-week embryo?
They are marked here by the red dots.
- anterior, posterior + common cardinal veins - return O2 poor blood from embryo body
- vitelline veins - return O2 poor blood from yolk sac
- umbilical veins - carry O2 rich blood from placenta
(orientation of veins around heart seen below)
What is this cavity on the caudal end of the embryonic heart?
sinus venosus
- receives blood from umbilical, vitelline and cardinal veins
What is this paired structure?
What does it come from and later become?
Myoepicardial Mantle
- thickening of the splanchnic mesoderm
- it is the dorsal wall of the primordial pericardial cavity
- later becomes the epi- and myocardium layers
(shown w/ red arrow below, eventually even the dorsal side of the MEM fuses to completely surround the heart tube )
What two embryonic movements explain the movement and fusion of the parts of the primordial heart?
Flexion (AKA head/tail fold, longitudinal folding)** **- explains hearts movement from “above” head to in the chest
Rolling (AKA transverse folding) - explains joining of paired heart primordia in the mesoderm
What is #7?
How does it form and what is its fate?
Dorsal Mesocardium
- a dorsal suspension of the heart tube and its surroundings by a stalk of mesoderm
- forms when the intraembryonic coelom fuses ventrally, but not dorsally
- eventually disappears as the coelom fuses completely to form the pericardial cavity
What eventually becomes the parietal pericardium?
**somatic mesoderm **of the cardiogenic area
What is the area marked by the question mark?
What does it become and how?
Truncus Arteriosus
- cranial end of the primitive heart tube coming from the primitive ventricle and bulbus cordis
- becomes the aorta and pulmonary trunk after septation by the spiral aorticopulmonary septum
What is the area indicated by the question mark?
What does it become?
bulbus cordis
- rounded structure in primitive heart tube distal to primitive ventricle
- gives rise to outflow part of the right ventricle (infundibulum)