Oligodendrocytes

Oligodendrocytes help myelin grow onto nerve fibers, which cannot grow or function without this fatty protective coating.

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Oligodendrocytes were more resistant to the toxin, and when the two types of cells were grown together in cell culture, she found that the oligodendrocytes protected the neurons from death by releasing some unknown protective factor.

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Oligodendrocytes support neurons by producing a protective substance called myelin which wraps around transmitting extensions of nerve cells call axons.

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Oligodendrocytes produce the myelin sheath that surrounds nerve fibers like wire insulation.

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2004 Oligodendrocytes are susceptible to apoptotic cell death induced by prion protein-derived peptides.

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1990 Oligodendrocytes arrest neurite growth by contact inhibition.

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