Heart Development Flashcards
What is vasculogenesis?
Process of making blood vessels directly from mesenchyme
What is angiogenesis?
Budding and sprouting of new vessels from existing ones
Helped by intussusception (splitting)
When does extra embryonic vasculogenesis and early hematopoeisis occur?
Day 17
What is hematopoiesis?
Blood cell formation
Where does extraembryonic vasculogenesis begin?
Begins in mesoderm adjacent to endoderm of yolk sac wall
What is the process of extraembryonic vasculogenesis?
Hemangioblasts —> Hematopoietic progenitor cells & Endothelial precursor cells (HPCs and EPCs)
HPCs & EPCs —> blood islands —> coalesce, lengthen and interconnect —> initial vascular network
What has formed by the end of week 3 via vasculogenesis?
Vascularized yolk sac wall
Connecting stalk
Chorionic villi
What are the sizes of eventual hematopoiesis?
Blood islands of yolk sac Liver Aortic gonadal mesonephric region (AGM) Lymph organs Bone marrow
When do Embryonic hematopoietic stem cells appear?
Day 17 (When vasculogenesis starts)
What do embryonic hematopoietic stem cells do by day 23?
Populate and reside in developing liver primordia
What do Embryonic hematopoietic stem cells do in the liver primordia?
Generate embryonic erythrocytes, macrophages, and megakaryocytes
What forms Definitive Hematopoietic stem cells?
Programmed from Homogenized endothelial cells of dorsal aorta in AGM region
What do DHCs cells do?
Seed liver around day 30 allowing for cell-cell interaction to occur
Gives EHCs capacity to generate both myeloid and lymphoid stem cell lineages
Where will Definitive heamtopoietic stem cells go after seeding the liver?
Go out to populate lymph organs and bone marrow
When does the Aortic gonadal mesonephric region appear and disappear?
Appears around day 27
Disappears by day 40 after seeding the liver with DHCs
When does intraembryonic vasculogenesis occur?
Day 18
Is intraembryonic vasculogenesis coupled with heamtopoiesis?
NO
Where does Intraembyronic vasculogenesis begin/
Vessel formation begins in the intraembyronic splanchnopleuric mesoderm
What is the other name for ENdothelial precursor cells?
Angioblasts
What is the embryonic origin of angioblasts?
Intraembyronic splanchnopleuric mesoderm
What will Endothelial precursor cells turn into?
Endothelial cells
What will endothelial cells organize into during intraembyronic vasculogenesis?
Endothelial cells
—> Vasculogenic cord
—> Long tube
—> angioplastic plexus
How does the angioplastic plexus grow and spread?
- Continued proliferation of EPCs
- Angiogenesis
- Intussusception
- Recruitment of new mesodermal cells into walls of existing vessels
Where else does intra-embryonic vasculogenesis also occur?
Paraxial mesoderm
What occurs during Intra-embryonic vasculogenesis in the Paraxial mesoderm?
EPCs differentiate, proliferate and then migrate out
Form blood vessels in areas outside splanchnic mesoderm
What are angiomas caused by?
Abnormal blood vessel and lymphatic growth via a vasculogenic process
(Likely Abnormal bc of abnormal levels of angiogenic factors
What is a capillary heamngioma?
Excess growth of small capillary network
What is a cavernous heamngioma?
Excess growth of venous sinuses
What is a hemangiomas of infancy?
How often does it occur?
Benign tumors made of mostly endothelial cells
Occurs in ~2.5% of neonates
(Not immediate threat and can regress over the years)
What creates the First heart field?
Clusters of Endothelial Precursor cellsa in horseshoe shape w/in Intraembryonic splanchnic mesoderm + adjacent mesoderm
What is the first heart field also called?
Cardiac crescent
What happens to the First heart field and intraembryonic coelom as anterior/posterior body folding occurs?
First heart field and coelom become folded beneath the embryo
And pulls some endoderm inside to form foregut
After the anterior/posterior body folding occurs, what is the position of the first heart field limbs?
Limbs lie ventral to foregut
And
Dorsal to coelom
What does the foregut come from embyrologically?
Endoderm
What forms the 2 primitive endocardium tubes?
EPCs differentiating into endothelial cells
What happens to the 2 primitive endocardium tubes as lateral folding occurs?
Brings tubes together —> fuse in midline w/ adjacent cardiogenic mesoderm
Makes the simple, single tubular heart
Tube will sink to future pericardial cavity
How is the first aortic arch made?
By the cranial ends of develop dorsal aorta being dragged ventrally along heart
Thus forming loops
What 3 things allow inflow of blood into the primitive heart?
Common cardinal veins
Vitelline veins
Umbilical veins
What are the layer of the Simple single heart tube?
- Endocardium
- Myocardium
- Cardiac jelly
What is the endocardium of the primary heart tube wall?
Inner epithelium continuous w/ blood vessels
What is cardiac jelly?
Concentration of extracellular matrix b/w endocardium and myocardium
How is the simple tubular heart divided into regions?
Thru a series of constrictions and expansions
When doe the first they thymic contraction occur?
Day 22
When does blood flow thru the embryo heart occur?
Day 24
What is the direction of blood flow in the embryo heart?
Into sinus venosus and out the outflow tract
What are the regions of the simple tubular heart?
- Sinus venosus
- Primitive atrium
- AV region
- Primitive ventricle
- Outflow tract
- Aortic sac/root
What makes up the sinus venosus?
Partially confluent right and left sinus horns
What will drain into the sinus venosus’ horns?
Umbilical vein
Vitelline vein
Common cardinal vein
What blood is the umbilical vein carrying ?
Placental blood that is O2 rich
What blood is the Vitelline vein carrying ?
Blood from gut area that is O2 poor
What blood is the Common Cardinal vein carrying ?
Blood from head and trunk that is O2 poor
Where is the primitive atrium?
What will it receive blood from?
Region b/w sinus venosus and ventricle
Receives blood from sinus venosus
Where is the AV region located?
Region b/w primitive atrium and primitive ventricle
What is the lumen of the AV region called?
Atrioventricular canal/foramen
What will the primitive ventricle become?
Left ventricle
What separate the primitive ventricle from the right?
Interventricular sulcus
Where is the Outflow tract of the heart tube?
B/w primitive ventricle and aortic sac
What is the aortic sac of the heart tube?
Common confluence of pharyngeal arch blood vessels that contrives to great vessels
What is the role of the dorsal mesocardium?
Suspends heart
What will eventually happen to the dorsal mesocardium?
Ruptures and forms transverse sinus
What will the caudal remnants of the dorsal mesocardium form?
Pro-epicardium organ
What forms the epicardium of the heart?
Proepicardial organ cells that migrate over surface of myocardium
What is the first major step required for cardiac septation?
Cardiac looping
What does the Cardiac looping process do?
Reverses atrial and ventricular positions as the heart tube lengthens
How does the Cardiac looping move the atrium?
Atrium moves cranial and dorsally
Will be b/w outflow and dorsal pericardial wall now
How does Cardiac Looping move the Outflow tract?
Outflow tract will bend to the right, forward and down
What will the outflow tract form?
The future RV
How does the Conus Arteriosus form?
Thru the addition of myocardium at the cranial end of the outflow tract
What is the Conus arteriosus?
Proximal outflow tract that is the outflow portion of both ventricles
What will form at the distal end of the outflow tract?
Truncus arteriosus
What is the truncus arteriosus?
Distal outflow tract