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Oligodendrocyte

Last updated on Friday, April 24 2009 by jdmiles

Oligodendrocyte

A mouse oligodendrocyte, transfected with GFP (Green Fluorescent Protein) and photographed using a 63x objective. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons, created by Jurjen Broeke, and released by him into the public domain. Thanks, Jurjen!

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Oligodendrocytes are the glial cells which form the myelin sheath around axons of neurons within the central nervous system. In the peripheral nervous system, this function is performed by Schwann cells. Oligodendrocytes have many processes (unecessarily...

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