Sentences with phrase «including oligodendrocyte»

The NG2 chondroitin sulfate proteoglycan is a membrane - spanning protein expressed by several types of immature progenitor cells, including oligodendrocyte progenitors, chondroblasts, skeletal muscle myoblasts, smooth muscle cells, and pericytes.

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AST - OPC1, an oligodendrocyte progenitor cell population derived from human embryonic stem cells, has been shown in preclinical testing in animals and in vitro to have three potentially reparative functions that address the complex pathologies observed in demyelination disorders, such as spinal cord injuries, and multiple neurodegenerative diseases, including multiple sclerosis and white matter stroke.

My laboratory studies the molecular mechanisms underlying the enhanced vulnerability of oligodendrocytes in neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's, including the age - related impairment of oligodendrocyte regeneration from glial progenitors.

The observations that astrocytes and even non-neural cells (J Cell Sci 2004, J Lipid Res 2007) store and can release neurotransmitter amino acids in a way resembling synaptic release, and that oligodendrocytes have NMDA type glutamate receptors (Nature 2005), together with findings that glutamate and other neuroactive substances can be co-released from nerve endings (Eur J Neurosci 2003, Molec Neurosci 2004, Cereb Cortex 2009a), including at the neuromuscular junction (Neuroscience 2007b), suggest novel ways of intercellular communication and potential drug targets.