Heart Development Flashcards
How and when does vasculogenesis happen, what is it coupled with?
blood vessels made from mesenchyme
Coupled with hematopoiesis
Hematopoiesis begins at Day 17 in mesoderm
What do hemangioblasts form and what do they form?
-Hemangioblasts form hematopoietic and endothelial precursor cells, form blood islands and early BVs, blood islands lengthen and come together, forming initial vascular network
What fills immediate need for blood cells?
-precursor cells form embryonic erythrocytes and macrophages
What are definitive hematopoietic stem cells?
Definitive hematopoietic stem cells are programmed from hemogenic endothelial cells in AGM region
- Form at day 27, disappear from AGM at Day 40
- programming in liver allows these cells to generate full spectrum of myeloid and lymphoid cell lineages, populate lymph organs and bone marrow
What are embryonic hematopoietic stem cells?
in developing liver, generate embryonic erythrocytes, macrophages and megakaryocytes
Sites of Hematopoiesis:
- Yolk sac mesoderm: starts at day 17 ends at 60, source of early rbcs and lymphocytes
- Liver Primordia: Colonized at Day 23- continues until birth
- AGM: begin day 27-40, colonize liver
- Bone Marrow: 10 weeks
major mechanisms by which the vascular plexus expands:
- Splanchnopleuric mesoderm is site of vessel formation by day 18
- endothelial precursor cells turn into endothelial cells then organize into vasculogenic cords
grows by
- continued proliferation of endothelial precursor cells
- angiogenesis
- intussusception
- recruitment of new mesodermal cells into walls of existing vessels
Describe angiomas
Abnormal blood vessels and lymphatic capillary growth via vasculogenesis
In infants, hemangiomas are benign and mostly endothelial cells
Capillary hemangioma
excessive formation of capillaries
Cavernous hemangioma
excessive formation of venous sinuses
What makes up the first heart field?
EPCs that are arranged in horse shoe shape within area of splanchnic mesoderm, with adjacent mesoderm
events leading to the formation of the early heart
Tubes
- With body folding, primary heart field becomes folded under embryo, pulls some endoderm inside to form foregut
- After this, EPCs differentiate and form two primitive endocardial tubes
- lateral sides of the embryo begin to move toward the midline and beneath embryo, bringing heart tubes together.
- Along with mesoderm, these tubes form simple tubular heart
- Heart tube dragged into thoracic region, forming a loop called the first aortic arch
Primitive Atrium?
between sinus venosus and ventricle, receives blood from sinus venosus
AV Region?
separates atrium from ventricle, lumen is called AV canal
Primitive ventricle
early left ventricle, delineated from future right ventricle via IV sulcus
Outflow tract:
portion between primitive ventricle and aortic sac
Aortic Sac?
contributes to great vessels, where arch blood vessels come together
Dorsal mesocardium?
suspends heart tube, ruptures and remnants form proepicardial organ
Epicardium?
formed from proepicardial, proepicardial cells migrate over surface of myocardium forming epicardium
cells important in helping to regulate cardiac looping
neural crest cells