Oligodendrocytes in development, myelin generation and beyond

S Kuhn, L Gritti, D Crooks, Y Dombrowski - Cells, 2019 - mdpi.com
Oligodendrocytes are the myelinating cells of the central nervous system (CNS) that are
generated from oligodendrocyte progenitor cells (OPC). OPC are distributed throughout the …

Oligodendrocyte lineage cells and depression

B Zhou, Z Zhu, BR Ransom, X Tong - Molecular psychiatry, 2021 - nature.com
Depression is a common mental illness, affecting more than 300 million people worldwide.
Decades of investigation have yielded symptomatic therapies for this disabling condition but …

Oligodendrocyte heterogeneity in the mouse juvenile and adult central nervous system

S Marques, A Zeisel, S Codeluppi, D Van Bruggen… - Science, 2016 - science.org
Oligodendrocytes have been considered as a functionally homogeneous population in the
central nervous system (CNS). We performed single-cell RNA sequencing on 5072 cells of …

Comprehensive cell atlas of the first-trimester developing human brain

E Braun, M Danan-Gotthold, LE Borm, KW Lee… - Science, 2023 - science.org
The adult human brain comprises more than a thousand distinct neuronal and glial cell
types, a diversity that emerges during early brain development. To reveal the precise …

Oligodendrocyte progenitor cells become regionally diverse and heterogeneous with age

SO Spitzer, S Sitnikov, Y Kamen, KA Evans… - Neuron, 2019 - cell.com
Oligodendrocyte progenitor cells (OPCs), which differentiate into myelinating
oligodendrocytes during CNS development, are the main proliferative cells in the adult …

Oligodendrocyte development and plasticity

DE Bergles, WD Richardson - Cold Spring Harbor …, 2016 - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
Oligodendrocyte precursor cells (OPCs) originate in the ventricular zones (VZs) of the brain
and spinal cord and migrate throughout the developing central nervous system (CNS) …

Myelination of the nervous system: mechanisms and functions

KA Nave, HB Werner - Annual review of cell and developmental …, 2014 - annualreviews.org
Myelination of axons in the nervous system of vertebrates enables fast, saltatory impulse
propagation, one of the best-understood concepts in neurophysiology. However, it took a …

Distinct oligodendrocyte populations have spatial preference and different responses to spinal cord injury

EM Floriddia, T Lourenço, S Zhang… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Mature oligodendrocytes (MOLs) show transcriptional heterogeneity, the functional
consequences of which are unclear. MOL heterogeneity might correlate with the local …

Astrocytes and microglia as major players of myelin production in normal and pathological conditions

E Traiffort, A Kassoussi, A Zahaf… - Frontiers in Cellular …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Myelination is an essential process that consists of the ensheathment of axons by myelin. In
the central nervous system (CNS), myelin is synthesized by oligodendrocytes. The …

NG 2‐glia and their functions in the central nervous system

L Dimou, V Gallo - Glia, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
In the central nervous system, NG2‐glia represent a neural cell population that is distinct
from neurons, astrocytes, and oligodendrocytes. While in the past the main role ascribed to …