The craniofacial skeletal tissues are primarily derived from a combination of Cranial Neural Crest and mesoderm
<h3>What is Cranial Neural Crest?</h3>
The cranial neural crest is one among the four regions of the neural crest.
The cranial neural crest arises within the anterior and populates the face and also the pharyngeal arches giving rise to bones, cartilage, nerves and animal tissue.The endocranium and facial bones of the skull are ultimately derived from crest cells.
Early in the process of development, vertebrate embryos develop a fold on the neural plate where the neural and epidermal ectoderms meet, called the neural crest. The neural crest produces neural crest cells (NCCs), which become multiple different cell types and contribute to tissues and organs as an embryo develops.
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