Week 7
Key Events of Human Development during the seventh week (week 7) following fertilization or Clinical week 9 (LMP).
Event | ||
Pancreas Week 7 to 20 pancreatic hormones secretion increases, small amount maternal insulin
Respire Week 7 - enlargement of liver stops descent of heart and lungs | ||
Stage 18 | File:CST18.gif
Limb bones form by endochondrial ossification and throughout embryo replacement of cartilage with bone (week 5-12). Sense - Smell vomeronasal fibres and nervus terminalis PMID: 15604533 GIT - Liver obturation due to epithelial proliferation, bile ducts became reorganized, continuity between liver cells and gut PMID: 9407542 Neural duramater appears PMID: 15478101 | |
GIT - Liver (stage 18 to 23) biliary ductules developed in periportal connective tissue produces ductal plates that receive biliary capillaries PMID: 9407542 | ||
Stage 19 | File:CST19.gifNeural accessory olivary nucleus appears PMID: 2268071 | |
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