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Sequence of oligodendrocyte development in the human fetal telencephalon.
Glia - 1 Mar 2005
Jakovcevski Igor, Zecevic Nada
Abstract excerpt
Oligodendrocytes (OL), cells that myelinate axons in the CNS, differentiate from early to late oligodendrocyte progenitor cells (OPC) to become mature OL. Unlike the case in the rodent brain, myelin formation starts prenatally in the human brain, but the sequence of OL development and the onset of myelination are not well understood. We studied the human fetal forebrain at midgestation (17-23 gestational weeks,...
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