What Are Secondary Brain Vesicles

in neural development, one of the five vesicles that are formed after the prosencephalon and rhombencephalon subdivide. The secondary vesicles include the: telencephalon

What are the primary and secondary brain vesicles?

Initially there are three primary brain vesicles: prosencephalon, mesencephalon, and rhombencephalon. These develop into five secondary brain vesicles – the prosencephalon is subdivided into the telencephalon and diencephalon, and the rhombencephalon into the metencephalon and myelencephalon.

What are the 3 main vesicles of the brain?

It is widely held that three primary brain vesicles (forebrain, midbrain, and hindbrain vesicles) develop into five secondary brain vesicles in all vertebrates (von Baer’s scheme).

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