L26, L27: Development Of The Heart Flashcards
Heart development
- Primary and secondary heart field formation (Day 18: Primary, Day 20: Secondary)
- Position of heart tube
- Cardiac looping (Day 23-28)
- Chamber septation (Day 27-37)
- Outflow tract division and valves formation
Heart derived from
Splanchnic lateral plate mesoderm
Primary heart field
Heart progenitor cells migrate through primitive streak
—> Cranial-lateral direction (向上兩側) within splanchnic mesoderm
—> Cardiomyoblast + Haemangioblast (vessel + blood cells)
—> horseshoe-shaped cluster of cells: Primary heart field (lateral to neural fold)
—> unite to form Heart tube (surrounded by cardiomyoblast)
—> cardiac crescent
—> L atria, R atria, L ventricle
3 layers of Heart tube
- Endocardium —> internal endothelial lining of heart
- Myocardium —> muscular wall
- Epicardium —> from pro-epicardial organ near sinus venosus
Secondary heart field
Derived from pharyngeal mesoderm
—> within splanchnic mesoderm ventral to pharynx
—> R ventricle, outflow tract, part of atrium
Positioning of heart tube
- Cephalic folding
- Central portion of heart tube is anterior to oropharyngeal membrane and neural plate
- Cephalic folding bring heart tube first to cervical region then thorax region - Lateral folding
- single heart tube (endocardial tube) received venous blood from caudal pole —> pump blood out into first Aortic arch —> Dorsal aorta at cranial pole
- Lateral folding bring 2 endocardial tubes together —> fuse to form Primitive Heart Tube
- Primitive heart tube remains attached to dorsal side of percardial cavity by Dorsal mesocardium (ventral to foregut)
Formation of cardiac loop
Cranial portion of heart tube: (Ventricle)
bends ventrally, caudally and to the right (向前向下向右)
Caudal portion of heart tube: (Sinus venosus)
bends dorsally, cranially and to the left (向後向上向左) and incorporated into pericardial cavity
—> complete by day 28
Dextrocardia
Heart on right side
—> defect with laterality establishment during gastrulation / during cardiac loop when heart tube looses to the left instead of right
2 mechanisms of septum formation
- Fusion of endocardial cushion
—> develop from upper side (superiorly) and lower side (inferiorly) in AV canal
—> fuse to separate AV canal into 2 orifices / 2 AV canals - Passive expansion of chambers
Septum Formation in common atrium
- Septum primum (in atrium) grow towards endocardial cushion in AV canal
—> opening called Ostium primum - Cell deaths producing perforations in upper Septum primum
—> coalesce to form Ostium secundum
—> allow blood to go from R atrium to L atrium - Growth of R atrium
—> invagination of atrial roof to form Septum secundum
—> grow towards endocardial cushion and cover Ostium secundum
—> opening: Foramen ovale
—> Septum primum gradually disappears
—> valve of Foramen ovale
—> oxygenated blood from placenta —> IVC —> shunted from R atrium to L atrium (via foramen ovale)
—> at birth: L atrial pressure > R atrial pressure —> valve close against Septum secundum
—> separate L and R atria (Fossa ovalis)
Septum formation in AV canal
Bulbus cordis: Truncus arteriosus + Conus cordis + trabeculated part of R ventricle
- AV canal originally supplies only L ventricle (separated from Bulbus cordis by bulboventricular flange)
- Bulboventricular flange regress half way through along base of superior endocardial cushion + AV canal enlargement to the right
- Fusion of anterior (superior) and posterior (inferior) endocardial cushion —> divide AV canal into left and right by 5th week
Formation of AV valves
Each AV canal surrounded by local proliferation of mesenchymal tissue (AV cushion tissue)
—> bloodstream hollows and thins mesenchymal tissue (Cavitation)
—> valves form and attach to ventricular wall by Muscular cords
—> Muscular cords degenerate and replaced by dense CT (Chordae tendineae)
—> valves attached by Chordae tendineae to papillary muscle of ventricles
Atrial septal defect
- 2:1 female to male
- excessive resorption of septum primum
- inadequate development of septum secundum
- blood flows from L atrium to R atrium (left to right shunt)
Tricuspid atresia
- obliteration of right AV canal —> absence/fusion of tricuspid valve
- R ventricle underdevelopment + L ventricle hypertrophy
- NO blood flow to lung
- hole between R and L atria —> mixing of oxygenated/deoxygenated blood
- bluish skin colour, SOB, fatigue
Septum formation in Truncus arteriosus (Aorticopulmonary septum)
- opposing swelling in Truncus arteriosus (truncus swelling) by Cardiac neural crest cells
- grow toward Aortic sac and twist around each other —> spiral closure of future septum
- complete fusion of swellings —> Aorticopulmonary septum —> divide Truncus arteriosus —> Aorta + Pulmonary trunk