Developing brain vesicles in mouse embryo

Tel:  Telencephalic vesicle (embryonic lateral ventricle, only partially visible in this near-midline section)
III:  Diencephalic vesicle (embryonic 3rd ventricle)
Mes:  Mesencephalic vesicle (embryonic aquaduct)
IV:  Myelencephalic vesicle (embryonic 4th ventricle)

Note incipient choroid plexus on the posterior surface of IV.  Click on the thumbnail for higher magnification.

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