I posted a couple months ago about neuron to glia (in this case oligodendrocyte) synapses in the hippocampus, and how researchers had shown that these synapses were capable of LTP. This was an example of two themes 1) the brain...
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Posted on March 6, 2007 11:43 AM • 1 Comments •
Scienceblogs welcomes OmniBrain, a neuroscience blog that I am quite fond of. I am particularly fond of this cartoon, which has to be the funniest one ever made about oligodendrocytes. Granted that is a small group, but still...a very good...
Posted on December 5, 2006 6:45 PM • 2 Comments •
If you remember back from when I was at the Society for Neuroscience, I saw a talk by Bruce Appel where he showed videos of oligodendrocytes migrating and myelinating in the zebrafish. Oligodendrocytes are the myelin forming cell in the...
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Posted on November 24, 2006 10:51 AM • 2 Comments •
OK, so I am not actually on this paper, but my boss is. It is also what I am doing my thesis on, so I thought I might mention it. The article is entitled "Convergent evidence that oligodendrocyte lineage transcription...
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Posted on August 21, 2006 11:51 PM • 1 Comments •
This is huge. Jackson et al. have identified that the adult stem cell in the human brain for both neurons and oligodendrocytes are the PDGFR-alpha expressing cells and that PDGF-AA causes proliferation of these cells and a shift towards the...
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Posted on August 1, 2006 12:46 AM • 1 Comments •
Now I study oligodendrocyte development, and if you ask me they are a truly unappreciated cell type. Here is yet one more piece of evidence: synapses have been detected between neurons and oligodendrocytes in CA1 of the hippocampus AND these...
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Posted on July 19, 2006 1:00 PM • 5 Comments •