Lecture 9: Heart Development Flashcards
Where does hematopoiesis begin?
Yolk sac (extra-embryonic splanchnic mesoderm): Day 17
- source of early RBC and macrophages
- forms blood islands
By day 23, what structure do early hematopoietic cells populate?
Liver
-need to meet immediate need for blood cells
What is the significance of the aortic-gonadal-mesonephric (AGM) region?
Where definitive hematopoietic stem cells are programmed
-eventually will seed the liver to give rise to proper RBC and WBC
After the liver programs proper RBC and WBC, what structures do these cells populate?
Lymph organs
Bone marrow
Is intraembryonic vasculogenesis coupled with hematopoiesis?
No
With intraembryonic vasculogenesis, what does the splanchnopleuric mesoderm differentiate into?
Endothelial precursor cells (aka angioblasts)
What is the function of angioblasts?
1) Continue to proliferate as EPC
2) Angiogenesis: make new blood vessels from existing ones
3) Intussusception: splitting of blood vessels
4) Recruitment of new mesodermal cells into walls of existing vessels
What are angiomas?
Abnormal blood vessels and lymphatic capillary growth via vasculogenesis
On day 19, the first heart field or cardiac crest forms. What composes this?
EPC clusters from intraembryonic splanchnic mesoderm
Adjacent mesoderm
How does the primitive tubular heart form?
Two endocardial tubes are formed from EPC. Due to body folding, they are fused to make a single tubular heart with myocardium and endocardium.
From where does the primitive tubular heart dangle from?
Dorsal mesocardium
Why does the dorsal mesocardium eventually have to rupture?
To allow the heart to loop
What happens to the remnants of dorsal mesocardium?
Forms the proepicardial organ
-epicardium that covers simple tubular heart
What is the sinus venosus?
Where the inflow of primitive blood confluence
What does the primitive ventricle give rise to?
Left Ventricle
What does the outflow tract give rise to?
Right Ventricle
What happens to the atrium when cardiac looping begins?
Moves cranially and dorsally
What is the function of the conus arteriosus?
Proximal outflow of both ventricles
-Is divided so blood from LV and RV go out different vessels
What is the function of truncus arteriosus?
Distal outflow tract
What does the truncus arteriosus eventually become?
Aorta
Pulmonary Artery
Describe the second heart field.
Initially inhibited due to its proximity to notochord. After body folding, it is farther away and can start proliferating by adding cells to both ends of the primitive heart tube.
-drives cardiac looping
What is the role of neural crest cells in terms of cardiac looping?
-Regulates FGF 8 and drives growth of cells in primitive heart
-Maintains cardiogenic mesoderm proliferation and proper
myocardial cell specification within the second heart field
-Plays important role in regulating cardiac looping
What is ventricular inversion?
Reverse cardiac looping –> right-sided left ventricle