oligodendrocyte in English

noun
1
a glial cell similar to an astrocyte but with fewer protuberances, concerned with the production of myelin in the central nervous system.
There are also supporting tissues in the nervous system, known collectively as glia; for example, Schwann cells surround the axons of peripheral neurons, and oligodendrocytes and astrocytes ensheath the axons of central neurons.

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1. "Biology of oligodendrocyte and myelin in the mammalian central nervous system".

2. How do electrically active axons signal oligodendrocyte precursor cells to divide?

3. Mature neural cells after differentiation could express specific antigens of neuron, astrocyte and oligodendrocyte.

4. Astrocytes are a major type of glia, a class of non-neuronal brain cells which also include oligodendrocytes, oligodendrocyte precursor cells (NG2 cells) and microglia

5. Because heterologous Astrocyte-oligodendrocyte junctions far outnumber the few (if any) homologous oligodendro- cyte junctions, it is theorized that oligodendrocytes represent a “blind-ended’’ component of this sys- …