Week 2 - Development Flashcards
From where do the kidneys receive their blood supply?
-Abdo aorta
Where is the intermediate mesoderm in the embryo?
-Between the paraxial and somatic/splanchnic mesoderm
Which part of the primitive gut tube contributes to renal deveopment?
-Primitive Hind gut tube
Which section of the trilaminar disk forms the kidneys?
-Intermediate mesoderm
Briefly, What happens to the intermediate mesoderm to form the kidneys?
- Organised sequentially into 3 systems, pronephros, mesonephros and metanephros
- When one system disappears the other emerges
Where does the pronephros first appear?
-Cervical region
Describe the pronephros stage
-Pronephros is a very simple structure which develops from intermediate mesoderm and develops a pronephrotic duct which runs from cervical to cloaca
Describe the mesonephros stage
- Mesonephros commandeers pronephrotic duct and develops caudally to run almost entirety of embryonic trunk
- Mesonephric tubules deveop caudally
- Mesonephric duct sprouts uteric buds after contact with cloaca
Is the pronephros functioning?
-No
What is the urogenital ridge?
-A prominent region of intermediate mesoderm which gives rise to both the embryonic kidney (mesonephros) and the gonad
Which system is the first embryonic kidney?
-Mesonephros (mesonephric tubules and duct makes embryonic kidney)
How does the ureteric bud drive development of the definitive kidney?
-Ureteric bud sprouts from mesonephric ducts and releases chemical mediators which are inductive to the surrounding area of undifferentiated mesoderm (known as metanephric blastema)
What is the metanephric blastema?
-Area of undifferentiated intermediate mesoderm which develops into the metanephros
Describe metanephros stage
- Ureteric bud makes contact with blastema
- Bud expands and branches into the undifferentiated tissue forming the major and minor calyx. Meanwhile definitive kidney developing due to chemical mediators being released from bud
Where is the collecting system of the definitive kidney derived from?
-Ureteric bud
Where is the excretory component of the definitive kidney derived from?
-Intermediate mesoderm (metanephric blastema)
Where does the metanephric kidney first appear?
-Pelvic region
What happens to the definitive kidney once formed in the pelvis?
-Ascends to its anatomical position by crossing the umbilical artery
What happens to the arterial supply to the kidney as it ascends?
-Polar arteries are induced and regressed from the abdo aorta multiple times