The mediobasal hypothalamus in the human fetus. Studies on neurovascular link by Golgy-Cox technique.
There is a remarkable parallel between the development and maturation of the nervous cells and that of the vascular elements in the human fetus. By the Golgy method the hypophysiotrophic area appears to be uniformly populated by small multipolar neurons within the loops of the primary capillary plexus. Only in the 80 mm embryo did we find bipolar neurons, whose processes are directed to the 3rd ventricle and respectively to the median eminence (ME). Sinuous nervous fibres with terminal and non-terminal dilations on their course end near the blood vessels at different levels in the median eminence and infundibulum.
D005260:Female; D005333:Fetus / Q000033:anatomy & histology*; D006652:Histological Techniques; D006801:Humans; D007031:Hypothalamus / Q000098:blood supply / Q000166:cytology / Q000196:embryology*; D009474:Neurons / Q000166:cytology*; D011247:Pregnancy