

After stages 18-19, it became increasingly difficult to identify detailed features of the brain from the surface. The mesencephalic flexure was seen at stage 12, and the cervical flexure and pontine flexure at stage 14. The development of the cerebellum and cerebrum were first observed at stages 14 and 15, respectively. The mesencephalon does not partition further. There are no defining structural changes, other than for the endoscopist trying to navigate the colon who may be able to see the dark extrinsic impression of the liver on the colon, thus marking the distinction between the end of the ascending and beginning of transverse colon. The five secondary brain vesicles were formed during stages 14-15. The hepatic flexure is the junction between the transverse colon and the ascending colon.

ventral surface of the mesencephalic flexure expressed Ptx3. Fiber tracts from the floor of the mesencephalin form the cerebral peduncles. The three primary divisions of the brain were distinguishable before closing of the neural tube. ABSTRACT The mesencephalic dopaminergic (mesDA). The mesencephalon contains the superior colliculi, which is a synaptic relay for visual reflexes, and the inferior colliculi, which are relays for auditory reflexes. The neural folds began to fuse at stage 10, and the rostral and caudal neuropore were closed during stages 11 and 12, respectively.

In this study, a photographic atlas from the 4th to the 7th week after ovulation (Carnegie stages 10-18) is provided. The masseteric reflex is a monosynaptic brainstem neural circuit: stretch receptors in the masseter muscle spindles, with cell bodies in the mesencephalic trigeminal nucleus (Mes V), synapse directly upon neurons in the trigeminal motor nucleus (Mo V), which innervate the masseter muscle. Many features of the developing nervous system are visible from external observations of intact human embryos.
