cranial neural crest in dogs

Neural crest cells (NCCs) originating in the anterior part of the developing embryo and residing between the mid-diencephalon and the forming hindbrain; cranial NCCs migrate dorsolaterally to form the craniofacial mesenchyme that differentiates into various craniofacial cartilages and bones, cranial neurons, glia, and connective tissues of the face; these cells enter the pharyngeal pouches and arches where they give rise to thymic cells, bones of the middle ear and jaw (mandible), and the odontoblasts of the tooth primordia; like their counterparts in the trunk, cranial NCCs also contribute to the developing peripheral nervous system, along with the pigmented cell (i.e. melanocyte) lineage. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the cranial neural crest is

Neural crest cells (NCCs) originating in the anterior part of the developing embryo and residing between the mid-diencephalon and the forming hindbrain; cranial NCCs migrate dorsolaterally to form the craniofacial mesenchyme that differentiates into various craniofacial cartilages and bones, cranial neurons, glia, and connective tissues of the face; these cells enter the pharyngeal pouches and arches where they give rise to thymic cells, bones of the middle ear and jaw (mandible), and the odontoblasts of the tooth primordia; like their counterparts in the trunk, cranial NCCs also contribute to the developing peripheral nervous system, along with the pigmented cell (i.e. melanocyte) lineage. The atlas records it as a tissue at the tissue scale in the dog.

Where the cranial neural crest is

This dataset records no region or system for it. No positional evidence of any kind. Drawn outside the body so it can still be found and counted, never inside it.

What the cranial neural crest connects to

The atlas records 11 typed relationships for it, across 4 kinds of connection. part of neural crest.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the cranial neural crest. Only a minority of structures carry those edges here, so an empty answer means nothing has been recorded — not that there is nothing to record.

Also called

Also recorded as CNC, cephalic neural crest, cranial NCC population, head NCC population, crista neuralis cranialis and head crest, and 1 more. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0003099, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: neural crest.
• A kind of: embryonic tissue.
• subtype: facio-acoustic neural crest, glossopharyngeal neural crest, mesencephalic neural crest, rhombencephalon neural crest and trigeminal neural crest.
• develops into: auditory ossicle bone, mesenchyme derived from head neural crest, sensory root of facial nerve and terminal nerve.

Questions

Where is the cranial neural crest?

This dataset records no region or system for it. No positional evidence of any kind. Drawn outside the body so it can still be found and counted, never inside it.

What does the cranial neural crest connect to?

Part of: neural crest.

Is the cranial neural crest the same in other species?

This page describes the dog. The human record of the same structure sits beside it on /compare, over one shared model rather than two atlases built separately.