GI Embryology

  1. When does stomach rotation occur in development?
    Weeks 4-6
  2. Buccopharyngeal membrane is future ____. Cloacal membrane is future _____.
    • Mouth
    • Butthole
  3. Which embryological structure connect gut tube to the yolk sac?
    vitelline duct
  4. Embryological layer for: gut tube, liver and pancreas, peritoneal, neuro crest GI tract
    • Gut tube- endoderm
    • Liver and pancreas- endoderm
    • Peritoneal- endoderm
    • Neuro crest- ectoderm
  5. Which embryological structure is often considered to be part of the foregut?
    Pharyngeal gut
  6. True/false: spleen is derived from the foregut tube
    False; spleen isn’t however spleen is considered in the foregut because of blood supply (celiac trunk)
  7. Ventral stomach receives innervation from _____ vagal trunk; dorsal stomach receives innervation from _____ vagal trunk.
    • Anterior (was the left vagus up in the neck)
    • Posterior (was the right vagus; think LARP)
  8. Which direction does the stomach rotate?
    clockwise, 90 degrees along the longitudinal
  9. Which side of the stomach enlarges?
    Posterior side, forming the greater curvature of the stomach
  10. Pancreas is formed from two endodermal buds, where does the ventral bud move?
    Dorsally, ultimately fusing with dorsal bud
  11. What does the ventral bud of pancreas give rise to? Dorsal bud?
    • Ventral bud: uncinate process, inferior head, main pancreatic duct
    • Dorsal bud: accessory pancreatic duct, proximal main pancreatic duct
  12. Accessory pancreatic duct is form from which endodermal bud?
    Dorsal bud
  13. When does rapid liver development occur?
    Rapid growth in weeks 5 through 10
  14. True/false: liver, gallbladder, and bile duct system arise together as ventral outgrowth from the foregut
    True
  15. How does oxygenated blood get to the fetus?
    Travel from the placenta through the umbilical vein towards the fetus
  16. What is the developmental blood bypassing the liver called?
    Ductus venosus
  17. What is the ductus venosus?
    Connects the umbilical vein to the inferior vena cava allowing most oxygenated blood to bypass the liver and get to the heart
  18. Liver develop between layers of ____mesentery; spleen develops in ___ mesentery
    • Ventral
    • Dorsal
  19. True/false: spleen, along with the pancreas, liver, gallbladder and bile duct, is also formed from an outgrowth of the foregut tube
    False; spleen is not an outgrowth form the foregut tube. Spleen is developed from a mass of mesenchymal cells.
  20. Primary intestinal loop rotates around axis formed by the ______
    Superior mesentery artery
  21. Primary intestinal loop’s rotation is ______ and total of_____ degrees
    • Counterclockwise
    • 270
  22. When does the intestinal loop exit the body? When does it come back to the abdominal cavity?
    • Week 6
    • Week 10
  23. Gut herniates into the umbilical cord at week 6, bowel rotates ____ degrees ______ rotation. When it returns to abdominal cavity at week 10, it undergoes and additional _____180 degrees ____ rotation
    • 90, CCW
    • 180, CCW
  24. What is an omphalocele?
    Malformation of the intestines where the intestines do not return to the abdominal cavity and remain inside the umbilical cord for the remainder of development
  25. Omphalocele ___(is/Is not) contained in a sac that consists of peritoneum and other membranes. Whereas gastroschisis ____(is /is not ) contained in a sac.
    • Is
    • Is not
  26. Vitelline duct eventually becomes what structure?
    umbilical cord
  27. What is a meckel’s diverticulum?
    • aka an illeal diverticulum; where a small segment of the vitelline duct persists
    • 50 cm proximal to the ileocecal valve
  28. What results if the vitelline duct remains patent for its entire length?
    • Umbilical fistula or vitelline fistula
    • Poop from the umbilicus
  29. What could result from an abnormal partitioning of the cloaca?
    anorectal agenesis – no butthole
  30. What is the embryological layer of upper anal canal? Lower anal canal?
    • Upper: Endoderm (part of hindgut)
    • Lower: ectoderm
  31. What is the blood supply to the lower anal canal? Upper anal canal?
    • Lower: Inferior rectal arteries
    • Upper: superior rectal artery, branch of IMA
  32. What are mesenteries?
    Double layers of peritoneum that suspend the gut
  33. True/false: entire gut tube has a ventral mesentery
    False; entire gut tube has DORSAL mesentery, but only foregut has ventral mesentery
  34. Which organs are secondarily retroperitoneal?
    • Duodenum (descending, horizontal, ascending portions)
    • Pancreas
    • Ascending and descending colon
    • Rectum
  35. What is the greater omentum?
    Structure made of four fused layers of peritoneum
  36. Neural crest cells are precursors to which cells?
    Enteric ganglion cells
  37. Failure of neural crest migration could result in which disease?
    Hirschsprung’s disease
  38. What is going on with Hirschsprung’s disease?
    Congenital aganglionic megacolon. Parasympathetic ganglia are absent, bowel becomes spastic and constricts
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GI Embryology
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GI Midterm- Embryology
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