Neural Crest

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  • cells arise on lateral lip of neural plate
  • during neuralation, detach and migrate to various regions
  • cranial neural crest
    • odontoblasts
    • connective tissue surrounding eye, pupillary and cilliary muscles
    • truncoconal septum
    • pharyngeal arch cartilages
    • dermis and hypodermis of face and neck
    • come cranial nerve ganglia
  • Cranial and spinal neural crest
    • glial cells of peripheral ganglia
    • arachnoid and pia mater
    • schwann cells
    • enteric ganglia
    • melanocytes
  • spinal neural crest
    • pre-aortic ganglia
    • adrenal medulla
    • dorsal root ganglia
    • chain ganglia
 

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