Myelin plasticity: sculpting circuits in learning and memory

W Xin, JR Chan - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2020 - nature.com
Throughout our lifespan, new sensory experiences and learning continually shape our
neuronal circuits to form new memories. Plasticity at the level of synapses has been …

Myelination-independent functions of oligodendrocyte precursor cells in health and disease

Y Xiao, T Czopka - Nature Neuroscience, 2023 - nature.com
Oligodendrocyte precursor cells (OPCs) are a population of tissue-resident glial cells found
throughout the CNS, constituting approximately 5% of all CNS cells and persisting from …

A single-cell atlas of the human substantia nigra reveals cell-specific pathways associated with neurological disorders

D Agarwal, C Sandor, V Volpato, TM Caffrey… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
We describe a human single-nuclei transcriptomic atlas for the substantia nigra (SN),
generated by sequencing approximately 17,000 nuclei from matched cortical and SN …

Periods of synchronized myelin changes shape brain function and plasticity

O de Faria Jr, H Pivonkova, B Varga, S Timmler… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Myelin, a lipid membrane that wraps axons, enabling fast neurotransmission and metabolic
support to axons, is conventionally thought of as a static structure that is set early in …

Regenerating CNS myelin—from mechanisms to experimental medicines

RJM Franklin, C Ffrench-Constant - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2017 - nature.com
Although the core concept of remyelination—based on the activation, migration, proliferation
and differentiation of CNS progenitors—has not changed over the past 20 years, our …

Myelin: A gatekeeper of activity-dependent circuit plasticity?

G Bonetto, D Belin, RT Káradóttir - Science, 2021 - science.org
BACKGROUND Myelin, produced by oligodendrocytes, supports the rapid and
synchronized transfer of information across the central nervous system (CNS). Earlier views …

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 …

A new mechanism of nervous system plasticity: activity-dependent myelination

RD Fields - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2015 - nature.com
The synapse is the focus of experimental research and theory on the cellular mechanisms of
nervous system plasticity and learning, but recent research is expanding the consideration …

The substrate repertoire of γ-secretase/presenilin

G Güner, SF Lichtenthaler - Seminars in cell & developmental biology, 2020 - Elsevier
The intramembrane protease γ-secretase is a hetero-tetrameric protein complex with
presenilin as the catalytic subunit and cleaves its membrane protein substrates within their …

Functionally distinct subgroups of oligodendrocyte precursor cells integrate neural activity and execute myelin formation

R Marisca, T Hoche, E Agirre, LJ Hoodless… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Recent reports have revealed that oligodendrocyte precursor cells (OPCs) are
heterogeneous. It remains unclear whether such heterogeneity reflects different subtypes of …