A region of embryonic ectodermal cells that lie directly above the notochord. During neurulation, they change shape and produce an infolding of the neural plate (the neural fold) that then seals to form the neural tube[XAO]. The earliest recognizable dorsal ectodermal primordium of the central nervous system present near the end of gastrulation before infolding to form the neural keel; consists of a thickened pseudostratified epithelium[ZFA]. [ https://www.worldcat.org/search?q=bn%3A0815318960 OMD:neural+plate http://zfin.org/curator http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neural_plate ]
Term information
- ZFA:0000132
- MESH:D054258
- FMA:293879
- AAO:0011072
- UMLS:C0920623 (ncithesaurus:Neural_Plate)
- XAO:0000249
- VHOG:0000068
- Wikipedia:Neural_plate
- NCIT:C34225
- EHDAA:346
- DMBA:15565
- DHBA:10153
- neuronames:1362
- EHDAA:902
- EMAPA:35593
- RETIRED_EHDAA2:0001252
- BTO:0001765
- TAO:0000132
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The earliest recognizable dorsal ectodermal primordium of the central nervous system present near the end of gastrulation before infolding to form the neural keel; consists of a thickened pseudostratified epithelium. Kimmel et al, 1995.[TAO]
(...) at some stage of its development, every chordate exhibits five uniquely derived characters or synapomorphies of the group: (...) (4) a single, tubular nerve cord that is located dorsal to the notochord (...).[well established][VHOG]
Term relations
- future central nervous system
- ecto-epithelium
- embryonic tissue
- immediate transformation of some presumptive neural plate
- developmentally induced by some notochord
- only in taxon some Chordata