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Cells > Neuroglia > Oligodendroglia
Nervous System > Neuroglia > Oligodendroglia

Preferred term

Oligodendroglia  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

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Entry terms

  • Oligodendrocyte
  • Oligodendrocytes

Scope note

  • A class of large neuroglial (macroglial) cells in the central nervous system. Oligodendroglia may be called interfascicular, perivascular, or perineuronal (not the same as SATELLITE CELLS, PERINEURONAL of GANGLIA) according to their location. They form the insulating MYELIN SHEATH of axons in the central nervous system.

History note

  • 90(75); was see under NEUROGLIA 1966-89

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D009836

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