Early Development Stages of the Chick embryo
Whole mount of 16 hour chick embryo
Henson node
Primitive streak Area pellucida
Area opaca
Embryonic region
Cross section in 16 hour chick embryo through hensen node
Cross section in 20 hour chick embryo through hensen node
Henson node
Henson node
ectoderm mesoderm
endoderm mesoderm ectoderm
endoderm yolk
Cross section in 22 hour chick embryo shows hensen node
Cross section in 22 hour chick embryo shows neural plate
Primitive streak
ectoderm
Migrating cells Endoderm
Neural plate
endoderm notochord
mesoderm ectoderm
Cross section in 22 hour chick embryo shows neural tube
Whole mount of 24 hour chick embryo
Neural tube
proamnion
Head fold
Anterior intestinal portal
Mesodermal somites Primitive knot
Primitive streak
Blood islands neuropore
Neural fold
Fore gut
notochord
Area pellucida
Area vasculosa
Area vitellina Area
opaca
coelom
Vertical section of 24 hour chick embryo
Cross section in 24 hour chick embryo through hensen node
Cross section in 24 hour chick embryo shows neural fold
mesoderm ectoderm
Area vasculosa
Primitive streak
Neural fold
Neural groove
ectoderm notochord
somite yolk
splanchnic mesoderm Somatic
mesoderm
Cross section in 24 hour chick embryo shows neural tube
Cross section in 24 hour chick embryo through head region
Neural tube
mesoderm
splanchnic mesoderm Somatic mesoderm
Fore gut coelom
endoderm
Head fold Neural fold
notochord Fore gut
proamnion Sub cephalic pouch
endoderm
mesoderm
Whole mount of 48 hour chick embryo
mesencephalon
diencephalon
Optic vesicle telencephalon heart
Anterior intestinal portal
Vitelline vien
Tail bud Head fold
Pharynx pouch metencephalon Pharynx Myelencephalon
Otic vesicle
somites Pharynx pouch
Neural tube
Tail fold
verical section of 48 hour chick embryo
telencephalon diencephalon mesencephalon metencephalon
Myelencephalon notochord
Pharynx
somites Neural tube
heart
Tail bud
cross section of 48 hour chick embryo through eye and pharynx pouchs
cross section of 48 hour chick embryo through heart
cross section of 48 hour chick embryo through the anterior intestinal portal
cross section of 48 hour chick embryo through trunk region and lateral body fold
cross section of 48 hour chick embryo through trunk region
Whole mount of 72 hour chick embryo
cross section of 72 hour chick embryo through eye and heart
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cross section of 72 hour chick embryo through pharyngeal puoch
Whole mount of 96 hour chick embryo