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Neural Plate

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neural plate [′nu̇r·əl ′plāt]
(embryology)
The thickened dorsal plate of ectoderm that differentiates into the neural tube.

Neural Plate 

(also medullary plate), the early rudiment of the central nervous system in chordate animals and in man. The underlying chordamesoderm induces the formation of the neural plate from the ectoderm.



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Bending of the neural plate during mouse spinal neurulation is independent of actin microfilaments.
Neural plate cells are morphologically indistinct from each other and are not yet committed to a particular neuronal lineage.
As the embryo develops, the ectoderm-derived neural plate indents to produce a neural groove, which is essentially an open depression bordered by neural folds [ILLUSTRATION FOR FIGURE 1 OMITTED].
 
 
 
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