Pharyngeal Arch Development Flashcards

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What structure do the neural crest cells form from?

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Neural folds/dorsal neural tube

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What occurs during the fourth week of embryonic development? (4)

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Neural folds meet and fuse = neural tube

Embryo folds along both rostral-caudal and dorsal-ventral axis = bean shape

Anterior end of neural tube rapidly expands to form beginnings of forebrain, midbrain and hindbrain

Continued development of somites

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What are rhombomeres?

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Series of 8 bulges which make up the part of the neural tube which will form the hindbrain

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What happens to the anterior end of the neural tube (4th week)?

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Expands rapidly as forebrain, midbrain and hindbrain form

Hindbrain region develops rhombomeres

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What happens to the mesoderm lateral to the expanding anterior neural tube?

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Partially segments to form 7 somatomeres (rostrally, muscles of head and neck)

Fully segments to form somites (caudally, bones and muscles of back)

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6
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How do the neural crest cells get to their arches?

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Delaminate from dorsal neural tube

Migrate along specific pathways into their specific branchial/pharyngeal arches

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Where do the neural crest cells for the face and first branchial arch come from?

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Midbrain and rhombomeres 1 and 2

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What do the neural crest cells which populate the facial region give rise to?

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Facial ectomesenchyme which will undergo complex morphogenesis to form the face

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What are cranial neural crest cells required for in heart and artery development? (4)

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Cardiac looping

Contraction of heart

Remodelling of aortic arches

Secondary heart field development

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What structures in heart and artery development are populated by neural crest cells? (2)

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Conotruncal septum

Parasympathetic post-ganglionic neurons

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11
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What is persistent truncus arteriosus?

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No divide between pulmonary trunk and aorta

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12
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What is a double outlet right ventricle?

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Aorta connects to right ventricle instead of left

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What disorders can arise from poor neural crest cell function in heart and artery development? (4)

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Persistent truncus arteriosus

Transposition of great vessels

Tricuspid stenosis

Double outlet right ventricle

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What syndromes can arise from poor neural crest cell function in heart and artery development? (2)

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Digeorge syndrome

Charge syndrome

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15
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What is the stomatodeum?

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Primitive mouth - wide shallow depression in developing face

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16
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When does the stomatodeum form?

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When the frontal prominence develops

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17
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Which branchial arch is called the mandibular arch?

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First

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18
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What limits the stomatodeum?

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Buccopharyngeal membrane

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19
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When do the pharyngeal arches and pouches appear?

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4th and 5th weeks of development

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What are branchial arches?

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Bars of mesenchymal tissue lined by ectoderm on the outside and endoderm on the inside

Contain cartilage, nerve and artery

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21
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What separates different branchial arches?

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Clefts (ectoderm)

Pouches (endoderm)

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22
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How many pharyngeal arches are there and how are they numbered?

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5

1, 2, 3, 4, 6

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23
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What two structures do the branchial arches separate?

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Stomatodeum and developing heart/cardiac bulge

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What makes up the mesenchyme of the branchial arches?

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Neural crest cells

Mesoderm

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What do the tissues in the branchial arch mesenchyme generally give rise to? (2)

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Neural crest cells - skeletal structures, ganglia, odontoblasts, connective tissues

Mesoderm - endothelium and striated muscle

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26
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Which nerve supplies the first branchial arch?

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CNV trigeminal

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27
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Which nerve supplies the third branchial arch?

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CNIX glossopharyngeal

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28
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Which nerve supplies the second branchial arch?

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CNVII facial

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29
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What does the first pharyngeal arch give rise to? (3)

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Bones of lower two-thirds of face (maxilla and mandible)

Meckel’s cartilage

Muscles of mastication

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30
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What is formed from the first pharyngeal arch and what are their positions related to the stomatodeum? (2)

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Maxillary process/palatopterygoquadrate - dorsal and lateral to stomatodeum

Mandibular process - ventral and inferior to stomatodeum

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31
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What does the maxillary process give rise to? (4)

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Structures of maxilla and palate:

  • Maxillary bone
  • Premaxillary bone
  • Zygomatic bone
  • Squamous part of temporal bone
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32
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Where is Meckel’s cartilage initially found?

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Within mandibular process

33
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How are the mandibular bone and Meckel’s cartilage linked?

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Mandibular bone forms by ossification of mesenchymal tissue of Meckel’s cartilage

34
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What are the remnants of Meckel’s cartilage in adults? (2)

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Incus and malleus of inner ear

Perichondrium of sphenomandibular and sphenomalleolar ligaments

35
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What muscles does the first branchial arch give rise to?

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Muscles of mastication

36
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Which branchial arch is called the hyoid arch?

A

Second

37
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What cartilage is present in the second pharyngeal arch?

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Hyoid/Reichert’s cartilage

38
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What is derived from the second branchial arch? (4)

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Stapes

Styloid process on base of skull

Lesser horns and upper part of hyoid bone

Muscles of facial expression

39
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What muscles does the second branchial arch give rise to?

A

Muscles of facial expression

40
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What is derived from the third pharyngeal arch? (2)

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Greater horns and lower part of hyoid bone

Stylopharyngeus muscle

41
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What part of the third pharyngeal arch forms the greater horns and lower part of the hyoid bone?

A

Cartilage

42
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What occurs during the 5th and 6th weeks of development (first arch)? (3)

A

Bilateral maxillary processes fuse with medial nasal process to form the upper lip, alveolus and primary palate

Lateral nasal processes form the alar/alae structures of the nose

Lower lip and jaw formed by the mandibular process

43
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What is the primary palate?

A

Extension of intermaxillary process

44
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When is the secondary palate complete?

A

10th week

45
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How is the secondary palate formed and when? (3)

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Palatine shelves grow medially from the maxillary prominences (late 7th/8th week)

Initially palatine shelves grow beneath tongue but soon move upwards to meet at midline above tongue

Fuse with each other and nasal septum

46
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When and what causes the separation of the left and right nasal chambers?

A

Growth of nasal septum as secondary palate is forming (late 7th/8th week)

47
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How does the fusion of the palatine shelves differ between males and females?

A

Occurs one week earlier in males

48
Q

What is the incisive foramen?

A

Where the primary and secondary palate meet

49
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What is a cleft palate ultimately caused by?

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Failure of palatine shelves to fuse properly during 7th-10th weeks of development

50
Q

How many cases of cleft palate is also associated with a cleft lip?

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50%

51
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What can cause a cleft palate? (4)

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Inadequate growth of palatine shelves

Failure of shelves to erupt above tongue

Excessively wide head

Failure to fuse secondary rupture after fusion

52
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What are some of the types of cleft lips/palates? (4)

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Uni/bilateral cleft lip

Uni/bilateral cleft palate

Cleft uvula

Uni/bilateral cleft lip and full/anterior cleft palate

53
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What is another name for mandibulofacial dysostosis?

A

Treacher-Collins syndrome

54
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What is another name of Treacher-Collins syndrome?

A

Mandibulofacial dysostosis

55
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What characterises Treacher-Collins syndrome? (2)

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Under-developed facial bones

Very small lower jaw and chin (micrognathia)

56
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What is another name for acrofacial dysostosis?

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Nager syndrome

57
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What is another name of Nager syndrome?

A

Acrofacial dysostosis

58
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What characterises Nager syndrome? (4)

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No angle between neck and chin
- Bilateral mandibular hypoplasia and severe micrognathia and retrogenia

Often a cleft palate

Prominent forehead

Possible cardiovascular and/or genitourinary abnormalities

59
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What are two syndromes caused by first pharyngeal arch abnormalities?

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Nager syndrome

Treacher-Collins syndrome

60
Q

What is another name for hemifacial microsomia? (2)

A

Ocular Auricular Vertebral Spectrum

Oto-mandibular syndrome/dysostosis

61
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The derivatives of which arches are affected in hemifacial microsomia?

A

First and second

62
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What derivatives of the first branchial arch can be affected in hemifacial microsomia? (7)

A

Ramus

Mandibular condyle

TMJ

Maxilla

Masticatory muscles

Oral commissure

Ear

63
Q

What is the temporo-masseter sling and in what condition might you find it?

A

Temporal muscles and masseter muscles fused

Hemifacial microsomia

64
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What will abnormalities in the facial nerve in hemifacial microsomia affect?

A

Mimic musculature

65
Q

What lines pharyngeal clefts?

A

Ectoderm

66
Q

Which pharyngeal cleft forms a structure in the adult and what is this structure called?

A

First cleft

External auditory tube

67
Q

What happens to the pharyngeal clefts during development and when? (3)

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3rd month - ectoderm at bottom of cleft proliferates to create meatal plug

7th month - plug disintegrates

All clefts other than first are obliterated by caudal expansion of second arch creating the lateral cervical sinus

68
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What can remnants of pharyngeal clefts result in? (2)

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Cysts with/without fistulas

Facial nerve damage

69
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What lines pharyngeal pouches?

A

Endoderm

70
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How many of the pharyngeal pouches form structures in the adult?

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All of them

71
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What does the first pharyngeal pouch give rise to?

A

Auditory tube and middle ear cavity

72
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What does the second pharyngeal pouch give rise to?

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Numerous infoldings that become the crypts of the palatine tonsils

73
Q

What does the third pharyngeal pouch give rise to?

A

Divides into superior/dorsal and inferior/ventral

Superior/dorsal - inferior parathyroid glands

Inferior/ventral - thymus (epithelial reticular cells)

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What does the fourth pharyngeal pouch give rise to?

A

Divides into superior/dorsal and inferior/ventral

Superior/dorsal - superior parathyroid glands

Inferior/ventral - “fifth pharyngeal pouch” incorporated into thyroid to form parafollicular cells

75
Q

What forms the “fifth pharyngeal pouch”?

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Inferior/ventral division of fourth pharyngeal pouch

76
Q

What nerves supply the tongue and which parts of it? (4)

A

CNV trigeminal for sensory receptors

CNVII facial for taste buds

CNIX glossopharyngeal for sensory receptors and taste buds

CNX vagus for palatoglossus muscle

77
Q

What is the hypoglossal CNXII derived from?

A

Occipital somites

78
Q

What are the 2 mesodermal origins of the tongue?

A

Somites

Hypoglossal cord (migratory cells)

79
Q

What is the common name of ankyloglossia?

A

Tongue tie