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Movies and Related Websites for the
Embryology Lectures of Dr. Berkowitz

Good Review Sites

1) Medical Embryology


Skeletal Embryology

Click here for skeletal ectoderm, endoderm, mesoderm "cheat sheet"

Click here for discussion of HOX gene in Limb Development

Click here for discussion of Events and Signal Transduction in Limb Development

Limb Development #1

Limb Development #2

Animations used in class (From The Human Embryology Website)

Fate of the Somites

Vertebrae Development


 

Preventable Birth Defects of the Spine and Brain

ALL women of childbearing age should consume 0.4 mg. of folic acid daily

 

Eye, Ear, and Olfactory Embryology

Animations used in class (From The Human Embryology Website)

 

Eye Review 1

Eye Review 2

Inner Ear

External Ear

 


 Cardiac Embryology

NOTE: These were the movies that did not play in class today

All of them work with the free VLC player

Please note: On my system, the player needed to be closed (right click on icon in taskbar, lower right hand side of Windows) before I could play another animation.
 

Glossary

Very cool 3D and interactive

Animations Used in Class

Folding 1

Folding 2

Arches

Looping-2D

Looping-3D

D-looping

Atrial Septum Formation

Ventrical Septum Formation

Membranous Septum Formation

Realignment

Veins

Circulation (Before Birth)

Circulation (After Birth)



Clinical case: adapted from Pediatric Cardiology


Useful Websites

Loyola University on cardiac development: Heart Development

Images and information on Spina Bifida

Images for meningomyelocele, rachischisis, anencephaly, encephalocele, syndactyly:
http://www-medlib.med.utah.edu/WebPath/PEDHTML/PEDIDX.html

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