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Carnegie Stage 12 - Scanning EM

© Dr Mark Hill (2009)

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Stage 14 SEM

Lateral

Stage 12 ventral SEM

Ventral (More? Large rotated image)

Carnegie Stage 12

Facts: Week 4, 26 - 30 days, 3 - 5 mm, Somite Number 21 - 29

View: Lateral view, day 26, 27 somites, Amniotic membrane removed.

Features: day 26, 27 somites, forebrain, site of lens placode, site of otic placode , stomodeum, 1st pharyngeal arch, 2nd pharyngeal arch, 3rdpharyngeal arch, heart prominence, somite

Identify: forebrain, site of lens placode, site of otic placode, stomodeum, 1st pharyngeal arch, 2nd pharyngeal arch, 3rd pharyngeal arch, heart prominence, somite

Events

Ectoderm: Neural tube continues to close, Caudal neuropore closes, forebrain

Mesoderm: continued segmentation of paraxial mesoderm (21 - 29 somite pairs), heart prominence

Head: 1st, 2nd and 3rd pharyngeal arch, forebrain, site of lens placode, site of otic placode, stomodeum

Body: heart, liver, umbilical, early upper limb bulge

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Dorsal Neuropore

Stage 14 SEM Dorsal Neuropore

Cloacal Membrane

Stage 14 SEM Cloacal Membrane

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