Joplin Heart Embryo Flashcards
What day does early hematopoiesis begin?
Day 17
What do hemangioblasts give rise to during the 3rd week?
Hematopoietic progenitor cells and endothelial precursor cells that organize to form blood islands that then coalesce, lengthen and interconnect making the initial vascular network.
By the end of the 3rd week, what do you see related to the heart?
Vascularized yolk sack wall, connecting stalk and chronic villi
What do hematopoietic stem cells do at day 30?
Cell-cell interactions in the liver give them the full capacity to generate both myeloid (both fetal and adult RBC) and lymphoid stem cell lineages
What is the AGM region?
Aortic-gonadal-mesonephric region (developing dorsal aorta), that appears day 27 and disappears by day 40 after seeding the liver with hematopoietic stem cells that were programmed from homogenic endothelial cells
What starts to happen by day 18?
Vessel formation in the intraembryonic splanchnic mesoderm
What do endothelial precursor cells do?
Proliferate and differentiate into endothelial cells that then organize into small vesicle-like structures (vasculogenic cords) and coalesce to form long tubes
How does the angioplastic plexus grow?
- Proliferation of endothelial precursor cells
- Angiogenesis: budding and sprouting of new vessels from existing ones
- Intussusception (splitting)
- Recruitment of new mesodermal cells into walls of existing vessels
What is an angioma?
Abnormal blood vessel and lymphatic growth that is likely stimulated by abnormal levels of angiogenic factors
What is a capillary hemangioma?
What is a cavernous hemangioma?
Excessive growth of a small capillary network
Excessive growth of venous sinuses
What happens to the primary heart field as horizontal folding occurs, and what happens as a consequence?
Primary heart field and coelom become folded beneath the embryo, pulling some endoderm inside to form the foregut. As a consequence, the limbs of the cardiac crescent now lie ventral to the foregut and dorsal to the coelom.
What do EPC’s differentiate into?
Endothelial cells forming two primitive endocardial tubes
How does the first aortic arch form?
Horizontal folding causes the endocardial tubes to fuse with the cardiogenic mesoderm, forming a simple tubular heart that then sinks into the future pericardial cavity. As the embryo grows, the heart tube is pulled into the cervical, then thoracic region. The cranial ends of the dorsal aorta are also dragged ventrally along with the heart thereby forming a loop, which is the first aortic arch
Where does the primitive heart get its inflow of blood?
From 3 pairs of vessels: common cardinal veins, vitelline veins and umbillical veins
What days do you see first rhythmic contraction and blood flow?
First contraction: day 22, blood flow: day 24
What is the sinus venosus?
The first chamber of the heart, made of partially confluent right and left sinus horns. O2 rich blood (via umbillical veins), venous blood from the gut area (via viteline veins), and venous blood from head and trunk (via common cardinal vein) drain into both horns
What is the primitive atrium?
Region between sinus venosus and ventricle that receives blood from the sinus venosus
What is the Atrioventricular (AV) region?
Region of heart separating atrium from ventricle. the lumen of this region is called the atrioventricular canal or foramen