Vascular patterns in the chick embryo spinal cord in normal and experimentally modified development.

The development of the vascular patterns of the lumbosacral segments of the chick embryo spinal cord has been analyzed in normal as well as in experimental conditions, after complete removal of the hind limb primordium. The results indicate that in both conditions the development of the vascular network follows the time-space sequence of the cytoarchitectural modifications of the cord, supporting the view that the vascularization does not exert a morphogenetic influence.