Roof Plate Embryology

Rose et al 2009.

Roof plate embryology.

Our data argue that by e12 5 the early cerebellar anlage has already been subdivided into discrete gene expression domains each of which gives rise to distinct cerebellar populations. Wang et al 2005. The floor plate responds to shh by producing its own shh and forming a gradient. Located on the ventral midline of the embryonic neural tube the floor plate is a specialized glial structure that spans the anteroposterior axis from the midbrain to the tail regions.

A thinned out trophoblastmembrane over the embryonic disk in developing carnivores and ungulates. It has been shown that the floor plate is conserved among vertebrates such as zebrafish and mice with homologous structures in invertebrates such as the fruit fly drosophila and the nematode c. This forms what is known as the roof of the mouth or the hard palate. Roof plate cells provide a secondary source of tgfbeta related signals that are required for the generation of distinct classes of dorsal interneurons.

In cattle prevention of the loss of the polar trophoblast layer leads to ectopic domains of brachyury a gastrulation marker. The notochord expresses shh. Fate mapping studies have demonstrated that the cerebellar rhombic lip gives rise to cells that populate extra cerebellar regions of the hindbrain including the pontine nuclei machold and fishell 2005. The cerebellar rhombic lip which forms adjacent to the fourth ventricle roof plate in rhombomere 1 is one of two primary progenitor zones in the developing cerebellum.

Failure of the secondary palate to develop correctly may result in a cleft palate disorder. The roof plate of the neural tube responds to those signals by expressing more bmp4 and other transforming growth factor beta tgf β signals to form a dorsal ventral gradient among the neural tube. The floor plate is a structure integral to the developing nervous system of vertebrate organisms.