Alar plate

Alar plate
Diagram to illustrate the alar and basal laminæ of brain vesicles.
aged about four and a half weeks.
Latin lamina dorsolateralis; lamina alaris
Gray's subject #184 735
Carnegie stage 13
Precursor neural tube
Code TE E5.14.1.0.1.0.4

The alar plate (or alar lamina) is a neural structure in the embryonic nervous system, part of the dorsal side of neural tube, that involves the communication of general somatic and general visceral sensory impulses. The caudal part later becomes sensory axon part of the spinal cord.

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