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Human oligodendroglial development: relationship to periventricular leukomalacia.
Seminars in pediatric neurology - 1 Sept 1998
Kinney H C, Back S A
Abstract excerpt
Periventricular leukomalacia in the premature infant is a lesion of cerebral white matter with its greatest period of risk when white matter is immature, that is, when oligodendrocyte precursors are proliferating and differentiating, and before myelin sheaths are actively synthesized. Although the pathogenesis of perinatal cerebral white matter damage involves multiple factors, the correlation of the timing of...
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