
Fig.1. Diagrammatic sketches of the brain vesicles, indicating the adult derivatives of their walls and cavities. *The rostral (anterior) part of the third ventricle forms from the cavity of the telencephalon; most of the third ventricle is derived from the cavity of the diencephalon (From Moore K.L. (1988) )

Fig.2. A, Sketch of the developing brain at the end of the fifth week, showing the three primary divisions of the brain and the brain flexures. B, Transverse section through the caudal part of the myelencephalon (developing closed part of the medulla). C and D, Dimilar sections through the rostral part of the myelencephalon (developing "open" part of the medulla), showing the position and successive stages of differentiation of the alar and basal plates. The arrows in C show the pathway taken by neuroblasts from the alar plates to form the olivary nuclei
1 - midbrain flexure 2 - cerebellum, 3 - pontine flexure, 4 - medulla, 5 - blood vessel, 6 - spinal cord, 7 - central canal, 8 - gracileucleus, 9 - cuneate nucleus, 10 - central grey matter, 11 - pyramids (composed of corticospinal fibers), 12 - alar plate, 13 - basal plate, 14 - sulcus limitans, 15 - ependymal roof, 16 - special somatic afferent, 17 - general sonatic afferent, 18 - special visceral afferent, 19 - general visceral afferent, 20 - tela choroidea, 21 - choroid plexus, 22 - special visceral efferent, 23 - general visceral efferent, 24 - olivary nucleus (From Moore K.L. (1988) )

Fig.3. A, Sketch of the developing brain at the end of the fifth week. B, Transverse section through the metencephalon (developing pons and cerebellum), showing the derivatives of the alar and basal plates. C and D, Sagittal sections of the hindbrain at six and 17 weeka, respectively, showing succrssive stage in the development of the pons and cerebellum
1 - midbrain flexure 2 - cerebellum, 3 - pontine flexure, 4 - medulla, 5 - blood vessel, 6 - spinal cord, 7 - cervical flexure, 8 - special somatic afferent, 9 - general somatic afferent, 10 - general visceral afferent, 11 - pia matter, 12 - ependymal roof, 13 - developing cerebellum, 14 - pontine nucleus, 15 - special somatic efferent, 16 - special visceral afferent, 17 - midbrain, 18 - developing anterior lobe of cerebellum, 19 - nodule, 20 - choroid plexus, 21 - tela choroidea, 22 - pons, 23 - anterior lobe (paleocerebellum), 24 - cerebral aquueduct, 25 - primary fissure, 26 - posterior lobe (neo cerebellum), 27 - floculo-nodular (From Moore K.L. (1988) )
