Ultimobranchial body

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thyroid gland

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• -The ultimobranchial body is a separate morphological entity with particular characteristics distinguishing it from the fourth pharyngeal pouch in all developmental stages.
• The pheasant's ultimobranchial body is characterized by the presence, in the connective tissue stroma, of epithelial cells between which two types of granulated cells comprising the main part of the glandular portion of the body are formed.
• BA IV is significantly different in human and mouse (parathyroid IV, a derivative of BA IV, is present in human and absent from mouse; however, in both human and mouse a ultimobranchial body is formed from branchial pouch IV) We also propose to use lung as material for the case study.
• (23) suggested that in human embryos, the ultimobranchial body is colonized at CS15 by cells of ectodermic origin, arising from the posterior margin of the fourth pharyngeal cleft.
• The ultimobranchial body is a remnant of the fourth branchial pouch.

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