Sentences with phrase «zebrafish oligodendrocyte»

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Finally, they demonstrated that zebrafish OPCs differentiate into mature oligodendrocytes when cultured together with human motor neurons, differentiated from induced pluripotent stem cells.

Here Dr. Reimer and his team asked the question, «what happens to mature oligodendrocytes after a spinal cord injury in adult zebrafish?».

Using live imaging in zebrafish to track oligodendrocytes in real time, researchers reporting in the June 24 issue of the Cell Press journal Developmental Cell discovered that individual oligodendrocytes coat neurons with myelin for only five hours after they are born.

Dr. Lyons and his team used zebrafish to study the formation of myelin sheaths by oligodendrocytes because this laboratory animal is transparent at early stages of its development, which allows investigators to directly observe cells within the organism.