roof plate in dogs

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. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the roof plate is

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. The atlas records it as a tissue at the tissue scale in the dog.

Where the roof plate is

This dataset records no region or system for it. No positional evidence of any kind. Drawn outside the body so it can still be found and counted, never inside it.

What the roof plate connects to

The atlas records 13 typed relationships for it, across 4 kinds of connection. part of neural tube.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the roof plate. Only a minority of structures carry those edges here, so an empty answer means nothing has been recorded — not that there is nothing to record.

Also called

Also recorded as roof plate neural tube, roof plate neural tube region, roofplate, alar plate and future brain roof plate. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0003054, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: neural tube.
• A kind of: embryonic tissue and lamina.
• subtype: rhombomere 1 roof plate, rhombomere 2 roof plate, rhombomere 3 roof plate, rhombomere 4 roof plate, rhombomere 5 roof plate and rhombomere 6 roof plate, and 2 more.
• contains: roof plate of diencephalon and roof plate of midbrain.

Questions

Where is the roof plate?

This dataset records no region or system for it. No positional evidence of any kind. Drawn outside the body so it can still be found and counted, never inside it.

What does the roof plate connect to?

Part of: neural tube.

Is the roof plate the same in other species?

This page describes the dog. The human record of the same structure sits beside it on /compare, over one shared model rather than two atlases built separately.