Embryology of the Digestive and Urinary System
Embryology · Basic Sciences
How it begins
Un recorrido exhaustivo desde el plegamiento del embrión trilaminar hasta la maduración funcional del tubo digestivo y del aparato urinario, con énfasis en los mecanismos morfogenéticos, las interacciones epitelio-mesénquima y las malformaciones congénitas de relevancia clínica.
What it covers
- Introduction: from the trilaminar disc to the cylindrical embryo
- Germinative layers and derivatives of the endoderm
- The primitive intestinal tube: division and vascularization
- Digestive System
- Foregut: pharynx, respiratory system and septum
- Esophagus and stomach: elongation, rotation and formation of the omentum
- · Esophagus
- · Stomach: the two rotations
- Duodenum, liver, gallbladder and pancreas
- · Duodenum
- · Liver and bile ducts
- · Pancreas: two outlines, one gland
- Middle intestine: herniation, rotation and return
- Hindgut, cloaca and anal canal
- Mesenteries, peritoneum and retroperitoneal organs
- Synthesis of digestive clinical correlations
- Urinary System
- The intermediate mesoderm and the nephrogenic cord
- The three kidney generations
- Metanephros: reciprocal induction and nephrogenesis
- Ascent, rotation and change in renal irrigation
- Bladder, urethra and destination of the urogenital sinus
- Synthesis of urinary clinical correlations
- Integration: the sewer as a crossroads
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- Subject
- Embryology
- Category
- Basic Sciences
- Type
- Study Guide
- Sections
- 24
- Reviewed
- 2026-08-02