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. [ http://amigo.geneontology.org/amigo/term/GO:0021509 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15378040 ]
Synonyms: roof plate neural tube roofplate roof plate neural tube region
Term information
- AAO:0011097
- EHDAA2:0001270
- EMAPA:16168
- VHOG:0000303
- neuronames:1371
- EMAPA:35361
- EHDAA:916
- TAO:0007058
- EHDAA:2891
- TAO:0001436
- ZFA:0007058
- ZFA:0001436
uberon_slim, pheno_slim, vertebrate_core
Term relations
- embryonic tissue
- ectoderm-derived structure
- cell layer
- composed primarily of some glial cell
- BSPO_0015101 some neural tube
- part of some neural tube