"Today, researchers are finding evidence that a ca…

“Today, researchers are finding evidence that a category of glial cells, termed astrocytes, play an active role in brain function by promoting the activity of neurons.”
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Time-lapse movies of oligodendrocyte progenitor migration « Neurophilosophy

Time-lapse movies of oligodendrocyte progenitor migration « Neurophilosophy

“Oligodendrocytes are glial cells which form the myelin sheaths around axons in the central nervous system. These cells have a small number of cytoplasmic processes – the name oligodendrocyte comes from the Greek roots oligo, meaning ‘few’, dendro meaning ‘branch’, and kytos which denotes ‘cell’ -….”