Oligodendrocytes (from Greek 'cells with a few branches'), also known as oligodendroglia, are a type of neuroglia whose main functions are to provide support...

Myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein (MOG) is a glycoprotein believed to be important in the myelination of nerves in the central nervous system (CNS)...

Oligodendrocyte progenitor cells (OPCs), also known as oligodendrocyte precursor cells, NG2-glia, O2A cells, or polydendrocytes, are a subtype of glia...

myelination or myelinogenesis. In the CNS, oligodendrocyte progenitor cells (OPCs) differentiate into mature oligodendrocytes, which form myelin. In humans, myelination...

protection for neurons. In the central nervous system, glial cells include oligodendrocytes, astrocytes, ependymal cells and microglia, and in the peripheral nervous...

nervous system, axons are myelinated by oligodendrocytes, thus lack neurilemma. The myelin sheaths of oligodendrocytes do not have neurilemma because excess...

no particular organization. Immature oligodendrocyte: Sometimes referred to as premyelinating oligodendrocytes, these cells extend "pioneer processes"...

Oligodendrocyte-myelin glycoprotein is a protein that in humans is encoded by the OMG gene. GRCm38: Ensembl release 89: ENSMUSG00000049612 – Ensembl,...

demyelinating disease of the central nervous system. Serum anti-myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein antibodies are present in up to half of patients with...

Id2 in the control of oligodendrocyte development and established that removing this protein led to premature oligodendrocyte maturation. In the 2010s...

in the CNS are astrocytes, microglial cells, ependymal cells, and oligodendrocytes. Two types of neuroglia found in the PNS are satellite glial cells...

different types of glial cells, including astrocytes, microglia, and oligodendrocytes. In its most extreme form, the proliferation associated with gliosis...

vessels, and other tissues by using blood and muscle precursor cells. Oligodendrocyte precursor cell Myeloblast Thymocyte Meiocyte Megakaryoblast Promegakaryocyte...

Remyelination is the process of propagating oligodendrocyte precursor cells to form oligodendrocytes to create new myelin sheaths on demyelinated axons...

temporal organization in myelinated fibers. The myelinating glial cells - oligodendrocytes in the central nervous system (CNS), and Schwann cells in the peripheral...

vertebrates is the axonal/dendritic myelination in both central (via oligodendrocytes) and peripheral nerves (via neurolemmocytes). Although myelin insulation...

macroscopically on brain tissue. The white matter consists of axons and oligodendrocytes, while the gray matter consists of neurons and unmyelinated fibers...

can also refer to other cell types as well, including astrocytes, oligodendrocytes, and microglia. There are many different specialized types of neurons...

including Alzheimer's disease. According to one theory, dysfunction of oligodendrocytes and their associated myelin during aging contributes to axon damage...

axonal growth, guidance and regeneration. NG2-positive cells include oligodendrocyte progenitor cells (OPCs) and other progenitor cell populations, such...

Oligodendrocyte transcription factor 1 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the OLIG1 gene. Oligodendrocyte Transcription factor OLIG2 GRCh38: Ensembl...

Oligodendrocyte transcription factor (OLIG2) is a basic helix-loop-helix (bHLH) transcription factor encoded by the OLIG2 gene. The protein is of 329...

Glia are grouped into macroglia of astrocytes, ependymal cells, and oligodendrocytes, and much smaller microglia. Astrocytes are seen to be capable of communication...

keratocyte Neuron Glia Astrocyte Ependymocytes Müller glia (retina) Oligodendrocyte Oligodendrocyte progenitor cell Pituicyte (posterior pituitary) Pinealocyte...

receptors and myelin antigens leads to an immune attack on the myelin-oligodendrocyte complex. These interactions between active T cells and myelin antigens...

system is rarely involved. To be specific, MS involves the loss of oligodendrocytes, the cells responsible for creating and maintaining a fatty layer—known...

the CNS and PNS, there is a transition from Schwann cell myelin to oligodendrocyte myelin. In cranial nerves this is often the place of neuro-vascular...

Children Adults Astrocytes Pilocytic Astrocytoma (PCA) Glioblastoma Oligodendrocytes Oligodendroglioma Ependyma Ependymoma Neurons Medulloblastoma Meninges...

field such as BMP2. PDGF is also known to maintain proliferation of oligodendrocyte progenitor cells (OPCs). It has also been shown that fibroblast growth...

astrocytes in the cerebral cortex and hippocampus, and in all mature oligodendrocytes. It has been suggested that brain hemoglobin in these cells may enable...