Template:Week 8 Embryo Stages and Events table
From Embryology
| Week 8 - Human Embryo Stages and Events (GA week 10) | ||
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| Embryo Week: Week 1 | Week 2 | Week 3 | Week 4 | Week 5 | Week 6 | Week 7 | Week 8 | Week 9 | ||
| Event | ||
| Endocrine - Pancreas Development Week 7 to 20 pancreatic hormones secretion increases, small amount maternal insulin
Respiratory System Development Week 7 - enlargement of liver stops descent of heart and lungs | ||
| Stage 18 | 
Limb Bone form by endochondrial ossification and throughout embryo replacement of cartilage with bone (week 5-12). Smell vomeronasal fibres and nervus terminalis [1] Liver obturation due to epithelial proliferation, bile ducts became reorganized, continuity between liver cells and gut [2] Neural System Development duramater appears [3] | |
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Liver (stage 18 to 23) biliary ductules developed in periportal connective tissue produces ductal plates that receive biliary capillaries [2] | ||
| Stage 19 |  Neural System Development accessory olivary nucleus appears[4]
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| Note - the day timing of stages is only approximate, system names link to first page of that specific system, and events are based upon the literature cited below. | ||
| References | ||
