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- noun Plural form of
oligodendrocyte .
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Examples
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The brain cells that make myelin and wrap it around the fibres of nerve cells are known as oligodendrocytes.
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Human embryonic stem cells are turned into nerve insulating cells called oligodendrocytes, which will we hope help to heal new paralyzed people.
Don C. Reed: The Politics of Cruelty: Wisconsin Republican Would Block Research for Cure Don C. Reed 2010
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Research found that cells called oligodendrocytes were being prevented from undergoing the needed differentiation for them to build new myelin.
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Hans Kierstead of the University of California's Reeve-Irvine Research Center announced shortly before Election Day that he had succeeded in coaxing human embryonic stem cells into producing highly purified brain cells called oligodendrocytes, then injected them into rodents with bruised spines.
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Specialized cells in the CNS called oligodendrocytes have long arms that lend structural support to the axons of several nerves and produce myelin wherever they touch the nerves.
Cell-Level Healing Joyce Whiteley Hawkes 2006
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In the Geron study, scientists from the company and UC Irvine are turning embryonic stem cells into a type of cell called oligodendrocytes.
SFGate: Don Asmussen: Bad Reporter eallday@sfchronicle.com (Erin Allday 2011
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In the Geron study, scientists from the company and UC Irvine are turning embryonic stem cells into a type of cell called oligodendrocytes.
SFGate: Don Asmussen: Bad Reporter eallday@sfchronicle.com (Erin Allday 2011
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Geron turns embryonic stem cells into precursors of neural support cells called oligodendrocytes, which would be injected into the spinal cord at the site of the injury.
NYT > Home Page 2010
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Other glial cells which are called oligodendrocytes, perform a similar function in the central nervous system.
CreationWiki - Recent changes [en] Ashcraft 2010
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The myelin sheath, produced by cells called oligodendrocytes, wraps around the axons of nerves and helps speed activity and insulate electrical conduction.
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