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What is the first organ that forms?
Heart
What is vasculogenesis?
de novo formation of the vessels
What is angiogenesis?
formation/branching of the new vessels from ALREADY existing vessels
How do tumors grow blood vessels around them?
angiogenesis
T/F Angiogenesis can procede without previous blood vessels
False, it cannot
When does vasculogenesis first occur and where?
In the third week in the intra and extraembryonic splanchnic mesoderm
When does the primitive heart tube become functional?
almost immediately in the 3rd week
Where does vasculogenesis occur?
Intraembryonic splancnic mesoderm
Cardiogeneic field?
Collection of blood islands in the 3rd week
Angiogenic precursors form what?
blood islands
blood islands will eventually form what?
primitive blood vessels
What will cardiogenic field eventually form?
a crescent-shaped blood vessel
What will crescent-shaped blood vessel do after 3rd week?
It will form an upside down u and fold anteriorly
Fusion of endocardial tubes form what?
Primitive heart tube
Arch formed by folding of embryo?
First aortic arch
What gives rise to dorsal aorta?
Cardiogenic field
What happens for the 2 dorsal aorta?
2 dorsal arches around 4th cervical level fuse to become one aorta
Caudal portion of primitive heart receives branches of blood vessels from where?
Mainly yolk sac,
Placenta
Some venous structure from body itself
How is the visceral pericardium formed?
Splanchnic mesoderm from the septrum transversum comes up and covers outside of heart
What is cardiac jelly and what does it do?
Myocardium and endothelium secrete a bunch of extracellular matrix into the layer b/t endocardium and myocardium

allows growth of heart tube and folding of heart tube
What will dorsal mesocardium give rise to?
Transverse pericardial sinus
How is the transverse pericardial sinus formed?
Perforation of dorsal mesocardium that connects all the space around the pericardium
Where is the transverse pericardial sinus located?
Behind pulmonary trunk and aorta
What are the 4 layers of the primitive heart tube?
1. Endothelium (innermost)
2. Cardiac Jelly (ECM)
3. Cardiomyocitic splanchnic mesoderm (cardiomyocytes)
4. Epicardium
Another name for epicardium?
visceral pericardium
As primitive heart tube grows, what happens?
It forms bulges and constrictions
How many bulges does it form?
4
Which direction does the blood flow?
Comes in from yolk sac, placenta, and flows in a cephalic direction
What is the caudlemost part of the primitive heart that receives blood?
Sinus venosus
What is the next cephalic bulge called?
Primitive atrium
What will sinus venosus give rise to?
Part of right atrium, coronary sinus, and oblique vein
What is the next chephalic bulge?
Primitive ventricle
And the most cephalic bulge?
Bulbous cordis
What are the 3 structures of bulbous cordus from cephalic to caudal?
1. Truncus arteriosus
2. Conus cordis
3. Proximal portion of bulbus cordis
What does truncus arteriosus give rise to?
Root of aorta and root of pulmonary trunk
What does the conus cordis give rise to?
forms outlet of blood from ventricles
What does the proximal portion of the bulbus cordis give rise to?
RIGHT ventricle
What does the primitive ventricle give rise to?
LEFT ventricle
What is the constriction between the primitive atrium and primitive ventricle?
Atrioventricular sulcus
What is the constriction between the primitive ventricle and bulbus cordis?
Bulboventricular sulcus
What is the opening b/t primitive atrium and primitive ventricle?
Atrioventricular canal
What is the narrow lumen b/t primitive ventricle and bulbus cordis?
primary interventricular foramen
On day 23 which direction of heart fold?
Caudally and ventrally and lower portion pulls backwards

bulbus cordis folds ventrally, caudally, and to the right
Flow of blood through primitive heart?
Primitive atrium
Atrioventricular canal
Primitive left ventricle
Primary interventricular foramen
Primitive right ventricle
Conus cordis
Truncus arteriosis
Cardiogenic area lies rostral to what membrane?
Buccopharyngeal
What are the 3 major structures that the sinus venosus drains?
1. Yolk sac
2. Placenta
3. Embryonic body
Lateral to medial veins?
1. Cardinal veins
2. Umbilical vein
3. Vitelline veins
What are the two horns of the sinus venosus
right and left
What do they drain?
Vitelline, umbilical, and cardinal veins
What 2 divisions are cardinal veins?
anterior and posterior
What is the right shift?
Most of the blood enters through right horn, left structures start to undergo degeneration
Left cardinal vein degenerates and becomes what?
coronary sinus
small branch will become oblique vein of left atrium
The right sinus venosus is encorporated into what?
Growing right atrial wall
What happens to the right cardinal vein?
enlarges and becoms sinus venarum or right atrium
What is the crista terminalis?
It demarcates the sinus venarum and papillary muscles, band of cardiac muscle
What is aligning?
aligns atria, ventricle, and out flow tract for the process of septation
What is septation?
physically separates the heart into 4 chambers and 2 circulatory systems
What is the endocardial cushion?
Mesenchyme filled with bulges and ridges, build up in cardiac jelly
What is the origin of endocardial cushion?
NC and endocardial cells
What are endocardial cells supplied by?
NC and endocardial cells
How are cushions/septums form?
Mesenchyme builds up and forms bulges. Eventually those cushions fuse to form septum
Which septum grows first, by what?
Atrial septum by septum primum growing downward
As septum primum forms, a large opening is created underneath, what is that called?
Ostium primum
What is the function of ostium primum?
It allows communication b/t right and left atria
What is the ostium secundum
Perforated opening between right and left atrium in the septum primum
What is the second crescent wall that starts to come down? compared to septum primum?
septum secundum

more muscular, septum primum is more membranous
Opening of septum secundum?
foramen ovale
Which way can blood flow now in the heart?
Right atrium to left atrium, but blood cannot go from left to right
How is the atrioventricular septum formed?
Superior (dorsal) and inferior (ventral) endocardial cushoin forms right and left atrioventricular canals
What do the right and left atrioventricular canals do?
There is debate, but it looks like the endocardial comes in and remodels, apoptosis to form papillary muscles and chordae tendinae
How is the ventricular septum formed?
Starts from bottom of ventricles and grows upwards towards AV septum
Does the ventricular septum close all the way?
No, it has to leave some space b/t right and left ventricles
What forms the aorticopulmonary septum?
Truncus cushions grow together
What forms the membranous IV septum?
truncal cushion,/septum
What will the right horn of the sinus venosus form?
Sinus venarum of right atrium
What will the left horn of the sinus venosus form?
Coronary sinus and oblique vein
What is a ventricular septal defect?
most common cardiac malformation, septum is incomplete so there is still communication between ventricles
What is tetralogy of Fallot?
1. Overridiing Aorta (b/c pulmonary trunk is small
2. Pulmonary stenosis (narrowing)
3. Rt ventricular hypertrophy (bc it has to pump harder)
4. VSD (AV is abnormal and IV is abnormal)
What is persistent truncus arteriosus?
Does not divide into distinct pulmonary trunk and aorta (mix of oxygenated and deoxygenated blood)
What is great vessel transposition?
Right side pumps oxygen into system, left side pumps oxygen into pulmonary system
Aortic arches drain from _____ to _____
primitive heart tube

dorsal aorta
What happens to the first and second aortic arches?
Mostly regress. part of first remains and becomes maxillary artery. Part of second remains and becomes stapedial artery
What happens to the 3rd aortic arch?
becomes right and left common and internal carotid arteries
What happens to the 4th aortic arch?
rt: proximal subclavian

lt: part of the aorta (arch)
What does the 6th aortic arch turn into?
rt: proximal rt pulmonary artery

Lt: ductus arteriosus
Where does the vitallin arterial plexus come from?
yolk sac
What does the vitallin arterial plexus give rise to?
1. Celiac trunk
2. superior mesenteric
3. inferior mesenteric
What do the umbilical arteries give rise to?
Common iliac artery, which becomes medial umbilical ligaments after birth
What are precursor cells from septum transversum that form coronary arteries?
1. proepicardial cells
2. epicardium
What are the three main veins of the fetal venous system?
1. Vitellin
2. Umbilical
3. Cardinal
What do vitellin veins form?
1. hepatic sinusoids
2. hepatocardiac portion of IVC
3. Portal vein
4. Superior mesenteric vein
What do umbilical veins form?
ductus venosus
What will the ductus venosus become?
ligamentum teres/venosum or round ligament
What happens to the cardinal veins?
Left: disappears

Right: right brachiocephalic vein and anastomosis creates elft brachiocephalic vein
also part of superior vena cava
Foramen ovale and ductus arteriosus function together to do what in the fetus?
bipass pulmonary system
Umbilical artery closure will form what?
Medial umbilical ligaments
Umbilical vein and ductus venosus closure will form what?
Ligamentum teres and ligamentum venosum
What is coarctation of the aorta?
Contrisction of the aorta. can be postductal or preductal
Which has a better chance at survival, a newborn with postductal or preductal coarctation of the aorta?
Postductal because it can form collateral circulation in the fetus and has that circulation when born. Preductal would not have the collateral circulation needed for survival.
What is a double aortic arch and vascular ring?
Persistant dorsal aorta, forms ring around esophagus and trachea
What do all the body cavities form from?
Intraembryonic coelm
What is the septum transversum?
It is just cephalic to pericardial cavity before folding. it also is a place where visceral and splanchnic mesoderm are continuous with each other
The first folding of the "u" is going to create what?
1. primitive pericardium
2. pericardioperitoneal canals
What level after folding is the septum transversum?
C3-C5
What divides the pericardial cavity from the pleural cavity?
Pleuropericardial folds
What will the pleuropericardial folds be in the adult?
Fibrous pericardium
What are the pleuroperitoneal membranes and what do they do?
Separate thorax from abdomen by closing pericardioperitoneal canals. They grow from dorsal to ventral until they hook up with septum transversum
What is a diaphragmatic hernia?
if the pleuroperitoneal membrane does not close correctly, some space is left open of canal

Usually occurs on L side
What will the septum transversum give rise to?
central tendon
What will the pleuroperitoneal membranes give rise to?
bulk of muscles of the diaphragm
What will body wall mesoderm give rise to?

What is it innervated by (including spinal cord levels)
muscular rim of diaphragm

Secmental innercation from T7-T12
What does congenital diaphragmatic hernia lead to?
Pulmonary hypoplasia because the contents of the abdominal cavity can grow upwards and take up space lung needs. Lung then cannot grow completely
What is eventration of the diaphragm?
No differentiation of membrane so there are no muscles or tendons. Abdominal contents can push up and lead to pulmonary hypoplasia
What is the difference in hypoplasia in diaphragmatic hernia and eventration of the diaphragm?
In a diaphragmatic hernia it's usually on the Left, eventration is usually bilateral
Name 4 body wall defects
1. Cleft Sternum
2. Umbilical hernia
3. Omphalocele
4. Gastroschisis
What is umbilical hernia?
abnormal contents protruding out and encased in umbilical cord
What is omphalocele?
Body wall does not completely come together, but is still covered by amniotic membrane
What is Gastroschisis?
Amniotic membrane ruptures and does not cover over organs, not a good survival rate
What is cleft sternum?
Ectopia cordis

organ outside body or or abnormal location of organ....can remove top layer and sew it up. Good chance of survival
The trachea is straighter on which side?
Right
Where does the larynx develop from?
4th and 6th pharyngeal arches
What is the embryologic origin of the larynx?
1. Endoderm: epithelium and vocal cords
2. Mesoderm: muscles (superior and recurrant laryngeal nerve) and cartilages
How does the lung bud/diverticulum form?
Buds from esophagus, then keeps dividing to form lungs
What is the wall that separates trachea from esophagus?
Tracheoesophageal ridge
What is the importance of endoderm and mesoderm interaction in the formation of the lungs?
Recruitment of vessels and connective tissue
Start from the trachea and name each structure of the lungs
1. Trachea
2. Primary bronchi
3. Secondary bronchi
4. Tertiary bronchi
5. Ternimal bronchioles
6. Respiratory bronchioles
7. Terminal sacs
8. Alveoli
What happens to the alveoli in the 7th month?
They go from being lined by simple cuboidal epithelium to simple squamous epithelium
Where is the boundary for conducting system and respiratory system in the lungs, how do we know that?
Respiratory bronchioles are the first part of the respiratory because there are little holes in the epithelium (compared to terminal bronchioles)
What is the purpose of surfactant?
Reduces friction and prevents lungs from collapsing
Where is there no more cartilage found?
C rings --> platelets --> islands and no more islands in terminal bronchioles
Name and describe two types of alveolar (pneumocyte) cells
Type I : 97% of alveoli, gas exchange b/t air and capillary

Type II: produce surfactant