Sentences with phrase «called oligodendrocyte»

Using tumor models for both astrocytoma and oligodendroglioma, which are very similar to human tumors, they could show that one and the same cell type, called oligodendrocyte precursor cells, could give rise to both tumor forms.

This type of stem cell, called an oligodendrocyte progenitor cell, is found in the brain and spinal cord.

Normally, the cells Nobel used for the test would divide and give rise to a specialized type of cell in the central nervous system called an oligodendrocyte.

Neighbouring myelin - producing cells called oligodendrocytes (OLs) recognise the repeating signal and wrap myelin around the active circuit wiring.

Instead, supportive cells called oligodendrocytes are responsible for making the myelin sheath that wraps around axons.

A1 bathwater also impaired the development of yet another class of non-neuron brain cells called oligodendrocytes — essentially fat - filled flapjacks that wrap themselves around nerve fibers, providing electrical insulation that speeds long - distance signal propagation.

The exosomes produced during environmental enrichment carry microRNAs — small pieces of genetic material — which appear to instruct immature cells in the brain to develop into myelin - making cells called oligodendrocytes.

Not exact matches

The team discovered that the B immune cells, called B - 1a cells, ensure that enough of these oligodendrocytes are available in the developing brain to support adequate myelination.

Oligodendrocyte death, occurring after a spinal cord injury, activates a process called de-myelination that results first in damage to surviving neuronal connections and finally in death of the affected neurons.

The researchers deliver a specific gene, which hitches a ride on a harmless virus, into the livers of mice, and once in the liver that gene codes for a protein called myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein.