Preferred Label : roof plate;
Uberon definition : A single row of glia at the dorsal midline of the developing neural tube along the
entire anterior-posterior axis. This region provides inductive signals for the specification
of neuronal cell types and of the specification of neural crest cells. The cells comprising
the roof plate are the precursors to radial glial cells.;
Uberon synonym : roof plate neural tube; roof plate neural tube region; roofplate;
Uberon related term : future brain roof plate; alar plate;
Origin ID : 0003054;
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A single row of glia at the dorsal midline of the developing neural tube along the
entire anterior-posterior axis. This region provides inductive signals for the specification
of neuronal cell types and of the specification of neural crest cells. The cells comprising
the roof plate are the precursors to radial glial cells.
