Anatomical studies on the arteries of the brain of buffalo (Bubalus bubalis). I. The rete mirabile cerebri.

The arterial circulation to the brain of buffalo is accomplished through the rete mirabile cerebri. It is an interwined arterial mass located in the cavernous sinus on either side of the sella turcica and extend from foramen orbitorotundum to the sphenococcipital junction. The major contribution of blood reaches through the arteriae anastomotica and ramus anastomoticus, the branches of the internal maxillary artery. The vertebral and condyloid arteries form a plexus on basioccipital bone (plexus basioccipitalis). An emergent artery from the latter plexus bifurcates and joins the rete along its caudomedial angle. The internal carotid artery plays hardly any role in the cerebral circulation of buffalo.